Great Wits to Madness nearly are Allied. (Pope.)
Seneca says, “Nullum magnum ingenium absque mixtura dementiœ est.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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Great Wits to Madness nearly are Allied. (Pope.)