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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes: Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
         

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.


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