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• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
• But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
  He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great....
• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
• It is better for one's reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
  -- John Maynard Kyene...
• The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
  -- Lloyd Jone...
• Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. -- Voltaire
• What better place to begin my reign of Communist terror and oppression than a memorial to that decadent and imperialist American, Melville Dewey, hated originator of the Dewey Decimal System!
  !" -- The Tick...
• A mighty work deserves a mighty theme. -- Herman Melville