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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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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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Genius Borrows nobly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you steal from one author, its plagiarism; if you steal from many, its research. – Wilson Mizner

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. – Dick Gregory

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Lead with your own participation in a way that you believe will create value and will invite others to do the same. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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