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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

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

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

"Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box."

"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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