• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

  Francois René de Chateaubriand
  French poet, writer and politician 1768-1848
  

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1. creative
2. sublime
3. nothing
4. faculty
5. itself
6. gives

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. by : Francois René de Chateaubriand

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