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~ Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~

Nnamdi Azikiwe

~ Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing. ~

Raymond Radiguet

~ The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. ~

Patrick Kavanagh

~ Begin with another's to end with your own. ~

Baltasar Gracian

~ Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ~

Laurence J. Peter

~ 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. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ~

Dean Inge

~ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ~

Aesop

~ Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ~

John Stuart Mill

~ But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~

Herman Melville

~ Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ~

Charles Baudelaire

~ True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ~

Edith Wharton

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