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"You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable." -
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
"When in doubt, do it."
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Top 5 quotes from Clever Jabs, Genius
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
"Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."
"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius."
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
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