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Comment author: gwern 05 July 2012 02:02:22AM 7 points [-]

"Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation."

--Dr. Samuel Johnson; "The Life of Cowley", Lives of the English Poets (1781)