"Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains."
— Genius

January 1, 1970

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Ellice Hopkins, Work amongst Working Men, in Notes and Queries (13 September 1879), p. 213, a correspondent, H. P. states that he was the first to use the exact phrase, "Genius is the capacity for taking pains."