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“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 himselfwho according to the Rabbins was also the first authornot being an original; the only original author being God.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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