If it has learned good manners, it is unoriginal and dull; and it is so negligible that it has apparently not been thought worth while to settle the question of its authorship.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Therefore, though all I have said may be condemned as unoriginal, I hold it worthwhile to bring people's minds back to the fact that they are in danger of minority rule, in spite of the fact that they have the very strongest moral reasons for refusing to be ruled by a minority.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Poor Woodberry, so high, so true, so good, so original in his total make-up, and yet so unoriginal if you take him spot-wise-and therefore so ineffective.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James