“You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius….”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
Quoted in Jack Fishman's My Darling Clementine, the biography of Winston Churchill's wife. (p. 131).
“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Source: Little Women
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