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“While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.”

Hard Character Easy Originals Originality

Author:John Landis Mason

“Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.”

Ideas Hard Easy Months Originals Come Up Good Ideas Original Ideas

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.”

Way Matter Easy Originals Commonplace

Author:Horace

“A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.”

Ifs Men World May Whole Seems Easy Levels Wife Fashion Position Genius Highest Originals Raises Whole World Engaged Bachelors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”

Law Easy Taste Originals Manners Decency Courtesy Good Taste Canon

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.”

Years Mean Has Beens Reason Would Be Courses Names Easy Sound Influence Rocks Roots Originals Folks Prominent Americana Original Music

Author:Dale Watson

“It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.”

Easy Wise Easier Originals Foolish Excellent

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

Needs Years Problem House Grows Easy Sin Food Source Originals Cooking Smell Be Good Improvement Ruins Meals Culinary Pot Vegetables Wet Nasty Foul Original Sin Cabbage Greenery

Book:Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

Source: Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book

“Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.”

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Author:John Hollander