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The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. it is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. it is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
-Leigh Hunt
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The Very Greatest Genius, After All, Is

Leigh Hunt
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. it is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. it is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
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