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"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
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"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."
"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
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