“Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.”

— Horace Mann

As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury Of Quotations From The Literature Of Every Land And Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch

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American politician 1796–1859

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