Quote by Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. – Benjamin Franklin

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Copy from one, its plagiarism; copy from two, its research. – Wilson Mizner

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Nothing is said which has not been said before. – Terence

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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