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"Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it."

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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