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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man; Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Blot out my name , that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises of fools with a pity my soul yet spurns.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, using the pseudonym "Owen Meredith", in "Last Words" published in Cornhill Magazine (November 1860), p. 516 | ||
