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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 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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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
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