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'I have never known that GENIUS in any art has ever been crampt
by RULES. On the contrary, I have seen great geniuses miserably err
by transgressing them, and, like vigorous travellers, who lose their way,
only wander the wider on account of their own strength'

HARRIS, Philological Inquiries

FIFTH EDITION

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