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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Author: Salvador Dali
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Author: Aesop
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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Author: Joshua Reynolds
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Author: Arthur Koestler
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Author: Dean Inge
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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
Author: John A. Shedd
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Author: Thomas W. Higginson
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Author: Mark Twain
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Author: Nnamdi Azikiwe
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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I invent nothing. I rediscover.
Author: Auguste Rodin
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The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Author: T. S. Eliot
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All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
Author: Clement Greenberg
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When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Author: Voltaire
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
Author: Ezra Pound
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What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
Author: Mark Twain
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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