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"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office."
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"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
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"The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away."
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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
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"Genius is independent of situation."
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
Style
"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
Patience
"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."
Wealth
"When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore."
Oppression
"Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."
Philosophy
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
Insight
"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."
Politics
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
Life
"They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage."
Justice
"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
Death
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