It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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