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| A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. | | Josh Billings | |
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| I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out? | | Bill Watterson | |
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| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. | | Herman Melville | |
| Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. | | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope | | Voltaire | |
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| Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | | Laurence J. Peter | |
| Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. | | John Stuart Mill | |
| Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. | | Leo Burnett | |
| What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it | | George Bernard Shaw | |
