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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680, Maxims, 1665
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950, The Devil's Disciple 1901 act 3
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

Paul Graham, September 2004

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