“If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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