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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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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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

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

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