It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production,…

Margaret Fuller
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. ✨ Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke, p.110
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