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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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