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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
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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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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."

"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."

"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature."
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