Words of note

June 14, 2001

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

-- Lady Marguerite Blessington, English socialite and writer

From R.R. Madden's 'The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington,' Vol. 1 (1855).

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