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Ernest Dimnet Quotes: Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
         

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.


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