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"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
"A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."
"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."
"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."
"I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else."
"Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it."
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