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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis de Buffon

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841

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