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novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress. Charles Dickens
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novelty genius forging-ahead
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. Denis Diderot
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. Edward Norton
novelty wizard
There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things. Stephanie Plowman
novelty attraction
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. Andre Maurois
novelty
Change, change,--we all covet change. Nicolas Chamfort
novelty opinion astronomy
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution. Nicolaus Copernicus
novelty want familiar
The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. Mason Cooley
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius.
genius talent persons
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Edmond de Goncourt
genius world selfless
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. Dawn Powell
genius littles purpose
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.
genius inheritance wealth
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius. Beatrice Webb