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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. Alexis de Tocqueville

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual. Baldur von Schirach

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. Joseph Addison

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. Kenneth Clark

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson