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          • 1.100 Pain that not yet the pain of love
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          • 1.312 A server of a servant
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          • 2.383 A shout in the street
          • 2.387 History is a nightmare
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          • 8.170 Happier then
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          • 8.694 Two fingers doubtfully to his lips
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          • 9.212 I I and I I
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          • 9.228 A man of genius makes no mistakes
          • 9.738 Cake and eat it too
          • 9.827 Eyes that do not know me
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          • 10.376 16 June 1904
          • 10.685 The man upstairs is dead
          • 10.783 Retrospective arrangement
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          • 10.1061 Huntinggrounds of minds
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    9.228 A man of genius makes no mistakes

    9.228 A man of genius makes no mistakes

    Mar 04, 20251 min read

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    • best-quote
    • genius

    The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake, he said, and got out of it as quickly and as best he could.

    — Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

    Portals of discovery opened to let in the quaker librarian, softcreakfooted, bald, eared and assiduous.

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