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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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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"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."
"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."
"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."
"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."
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