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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon is documented in Fuller’s journals (1839). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Journal April 1839, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“Buffon says it is nothing more than a superior aptitude to patience, alluding probably to that brooding, persevering tenacity with which genius clings to its subject matter.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Buffon says it is nothing more than a superior aptitude to patience, alluding probably to that brooding, persevering tenacity with which genius clings to its subject matter.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
Fuller attributes the remark to 'Buffon' by name with no work title; it is a widely-cited oral saying of Buffon's recorded by Hérault de Séchelles (1785).