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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison
1932
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1932
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Thomas Edison
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Edison, Thomas. Quoted in "Edison in His Laboratory" by Martin André Rosanoff. Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1932.

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