Henry David Thoreau quote: Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a ...

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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