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• Genius is the highest type of reason, talent the highest type of understanding.
• Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants- both know too much of him.
  -- Colto...
• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom
  he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so...
• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inhere
  genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
  -- Washington Irving...
• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, and the other to be buried.
  -- Colto...
• Leadership, at its highest, consists of getting people to work for you when they are under no obligation to do so.
• Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world.
  Then all things are at risk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution, or of a bad memory!
  of a constitution so treacherously good, that it never bends till it break...