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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you hear it.
-- Laurence Peter, "Peter's Quotations", 1977...
Originality is undetected plagiarism. -- Dean W.R. Inge
Original quip on the space telescope we all like so much.
A few articles were posted in sci.astro.hubble but nobody could read them....
ORIGINAL SOFTWARE Something of a rarity in this universe. -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
-- Fran Lebowitz...
or I'll fill you so full of lead we could sharpen your head and call you a pencil!
-- Amy to Edmund : Amy and Amiability...
Or, I may not feel that my belief-system needs to be self-consistent in a post-Goedelian epoch.
-- Dan'l Danehy-Oake...
Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. -- New Testament -- 1 Peter iii, 4
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato...
. To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate....
O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 78...

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