Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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