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"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
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"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."
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"Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."
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"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."
Art

"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."
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"When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for."
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"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
Nature
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