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

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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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."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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

William James, American Philosopher

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

William James, American Philosopher

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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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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Genius, Childhood, Will

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

George Eliot, British Author

Genius, Being, Man, May

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Genius, First, Prudence

"Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little."

B. R. Hayden, American Poet

Genius, Labor, Nothing, Will

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

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

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

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

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

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

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

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"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"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."

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

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