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Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Source: Amy March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16, 1869.
-- Louisa May Alcott, (Nov 29 1832-1888), US novelist; Her book Little Women, 1868, sold millions of copies.

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