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Daniel J. Boorstin

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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

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"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

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