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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
"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."
"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."
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
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