To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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