"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

Genius, Grammar, Learning, Liquor

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"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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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"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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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"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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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."

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"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

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"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."