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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"

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

"People who copy you will always be one step behind."

"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."

"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."

"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."

"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."

"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."

"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."

"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."

"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."

"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
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