"Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities."

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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

— E. B. White