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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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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Friendship
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Reading
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
Heart
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
Love
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
Life
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
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"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."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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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."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"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."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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