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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 lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – 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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France

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

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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when Tis safely got Tis worth the winning. The worst of t is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. – Bryan Waller Proctor

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