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I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other…

— Mark Helprin

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things…

— Terry Pratchett

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

— Chuck Klosterman

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his…

— Robert Hall

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be…

— Robert Penn Warren

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

— Anonymous

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope