"Genius seems to be the fakulty ov doing a thing excellently well, that nobody supposed could be done at all."
— Genius

January 1, 1970

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Variant: Genius is the faculty of doing a thing that nobody supposed could be done at all. — As rendered in Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything (1953) edited by Donald Day, p. 182