“Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
“Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.”
Last Words, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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