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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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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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

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