"Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more……" — John Stuart Mill

"Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character."

— John Stuart Mill

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