#genius

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ↗

— Horace

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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Taste is the common sense of genius. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. ↗

— Henry Adams

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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

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Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. ↗

— Maude Adams

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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