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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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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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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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