Persons of genius it is true are and are always likely to be a small minority but in order to have them it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
John Stuart Mill
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But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
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