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I think that Thomas Edison was slightly modest when he said that genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.
This testament to the virtue of persistence only goes to prove that, as another significant American – Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb – said, genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.