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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
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