I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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