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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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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville

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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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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Copy from one, its plagiarism; copy from two, its research. – Wilson Mizner

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I dont think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. – B. B. King

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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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