Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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