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The true genius...

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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Source: Lives of the English Poets.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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