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Genius is talent provided with ideals.

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Genius is talent provided with ideals.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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These are the times when a genius wants to live.

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The step between genius and insanity is very short.

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