Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a Man. . . by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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