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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear", 1914...
• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent....
• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
• Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.
• Insofar as love expresses itself, it is not expressing itself in terms of socially approved manners of life.
  That's why it is all so secret. Love has nothing to do with social order....