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Charles Caleb Colton on Intelligence

1777–1832 England

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To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school, is to put a race horse in a mill.

Lacon (1820)

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Lacon (1820)

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

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