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But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
[ Originality ]
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
[ Literature ]
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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
[ Writers and Writing ]
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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
[ Obstinacy ]
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
[ Failure ]
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
[ Leisure ]
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