Originality
1 February 2013
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
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This seems very true. We can’t help borrowing – learning is borrowing. It’s the partiular sum of the parts, not the parts themselves, that makes up origniality.