"Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Misattributed to Shakespeare in Criminal Minds ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).