"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

Genius, End, Interest, May

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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

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"I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his."

Matthew Sweet, American Musician

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"Common sense is genius in homespun."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

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"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull."

Louis Auchincloss, American Novelist

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"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."

Diana Wynne Jones, English Writer

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"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

Genius, Jealousy, Mediocrity, Tribute

"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker."

Olivier Martinez, French Actor

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"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."

Neil Bogart, American Businessman

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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."

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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

Justice, Nothing, Will

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

Friendship, Enemies, Friends

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."

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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

Society, Faces, Privacy, Slander

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

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"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them."

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"There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it."

Man, Men, Difficulties, Publishing, Worth