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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar peo

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

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Genius is childhood recaptured. – Jean Baudrillard

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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