Beatrix PotterThank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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People who are very intelligent only learn the same way as they were taught. They never realize or learn on their own what is possible. The fact that people with intelligence do not learn on their own, is one of the greatest secrets of the world, which nobody really takes notice of.
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