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• The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• A small mind is a tidy mind.
• That, Sir, is the good of counting. It brings everything to a certainty, which before floated in the mind indefinitely.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
• Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things can be reduced to nothing.
  -- Chinese Proverb...