“Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.”
Source: The Robber Bride
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Book III, Ch. VIII, pp. 164-166.
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“"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).”
Life of Fredrick the Great http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/fgreat.html, Bk. IV, ch. 3 (1858–1865). Sometimes misreported as "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"; see Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 12.
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Source: Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23