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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

Other quotes by Herman Melville

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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USA Patriotic
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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

Category:
Survival
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Herman Melville
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Plagiarism
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Plagiarism

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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Plagiarism

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

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Plagiarism

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord

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Plagiarism

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. – Annie Leibovitz

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. – John F. Kennedy

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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. – Seneca

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