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J. B. Priestley

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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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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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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

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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

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