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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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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."
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