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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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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. – Peter Townsend

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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden

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They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. – Jovius

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

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