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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet
Genius, Freedom, Law
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"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
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"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."
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"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
Experience, Wilderness, Worth
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
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"Folks never understand the folks they hate."
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"Light is the symbol of truth."
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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."
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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

John Adams, American President
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."

Louis Aragon, French Poet
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"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull."

Louis Auchincloss, American Novelist
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
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"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

J. G. Ballard, British Author
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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist
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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet
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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

Pierre Beaumarchais, French Inventor
Genius, Trouble
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