“Nor mourn the unalterable Days
That Genius goes and Folly stays.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Memoriam E.B.E. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20607&c=323, st. 9
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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That Genius goes and Folly stays.”