"But don't you regard it as a talent?"
"A dalent? No! It is chenius. I vill dell you what is de difference, in drade, between dalent and chenius. Ven one goes into a man's shtore and manaches to seel him vat he vonts, dat is dalent; but ven annoder man goes into dat man's shtore and sells him vot he don't vont, dat is chenius; and dat is de chenius vot my race has got."
CHAPTER XXI
ENAMORED OF ACCURACY
"Antonio Stradivari has an eye
That winces at false work and loves the true."
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty.—C. SIMMONS.
Genius is the infinite art of taking pains.—CARLYLE.
I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.—GILPIN.
If I were a cobbler, it would be my pride
The best of all cobblers to be;
If I were a tinker, no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me.
OLD SONG.