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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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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 meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. – Robert S. Lynd

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