Leslie Stephen, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
— Leslie Stephen on Genius
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Genius is a capacity for taking trouble." in the context of "Leslie Stephen, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. He was also one of the leading British mountaineers of his generation, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Thackeray's son-in-law and Virginia Woolf's father.
About Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. He was also one of the leading British mountaineers of his generation, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Thackeray's son-in-law and Virginia Woolf's father.
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