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"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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"Originals cost more than imitations."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
"I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style."
Explore more quotes by John Stuart Mill
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
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