Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART I: THIS WORLD, Chapter 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
“Naturalness is the seal of genius.”
Réflexions sur les passions et sur les goûts (1741).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 131.
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Le naturel est le sceau du génie.
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