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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

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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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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Perish those who said our good things before we did. – Donatus

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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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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli

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