英语词汇talent does what it can的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	talent does what it can
词源	talent does what it can. Toward the end of his days Edward Robert Bulwer, first earl of Lytton (1831–91), grew to regard his life as a failure, despite the many volumes of poetry he wrote and his diplomatic service as viceroy of India. In his “Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet” (1868) he gave us the now proverbial: Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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