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E. B. White

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."

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"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."

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"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."

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"Common sense is the genius of humanity."

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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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