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“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.”

“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.”

Running Family Virtue Blood Genius Vices Features Folly Unseen Vice And Virtue

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.”

Soul Eye Song Sound Blood Genius Mouths Hot South Folks Folk Songs

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.”

Different Sleep Blood Mankind Genius Life And Death Daily Life Ecstasy Nails Digestion

Author:Salvador Dali

“You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.”

Political Water Blood Genius Smell

Author:Rich Galen

“Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.”

Long Lines Destiny Blood Genius Streams Grandparent Ancestry Parents And Grandparents Long Lines

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory”

Thinking Knows Past Strong Memories Common Blood Expression Genius Lovely Golden Retrievers Golden Retrievers

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”

Has Beens Hands Blood Genius Hammers Discworld

Author:Terry Pratchett