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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Genius is initiative on fire.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
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Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311
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