"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity

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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."

Margot Fonteyn, English Dancer

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"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius."

Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish Musician

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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."

David Ogilvy, English Businessman

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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

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"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."

Alex Cox, British Director

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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."

Charles Peguy, French Philosopher

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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

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"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."

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