English Author

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“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself—who according to the Rabbins was also the first author—not being an original; the only original author being God.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)