From Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist, essayist, and poet, Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
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From Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist, essayist, and poetHawthorne and His Mosses (1850):
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
