"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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Vol. ii, Book ix: Here and There, "Last Words", p. 302.

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Vol. ii, Book ix: Here and There, "Last Words", p. 302.