"The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else."

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There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton