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"Since when was genius found respectable?"
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
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