Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

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Great accomplishments depend not so much on ingenuity as on hard work.

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The Comte de Buffon (a.k.a. George-Louis Leclerc), was attributed with this line in Hérault de Séchelles‘ Voyage à Montbar, in 1803: Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.