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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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Genius is its own end.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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When the gods come among men, they are not known.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Eccentricities of genius.

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

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