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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Abbe Guillaume Raynal |

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Samuel Johnson |

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Victor Hugo |