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"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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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."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"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."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."
"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."
"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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