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Maude Adams

  • “Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius!”

    • Maude Adams,
    • in Ada Patterson, Maude Adams: A Biography ()

Maude Adams, U.S. actor

(1872 - 1953)