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It may be admitted that in many instances an effort is made to carry out these entirely unoriginal views, but even in some of our most carefully conducted playhouses there are strange lapses. There is another point. It very often happens that the list of pieces printed upon the programme, for which in most of the theatres a charge of sixpence is made, is a mere snare.
Cosy corners with photographs and fans on the walls, and the inevitable pink or pale blue lanterns in the middle of the ceiling, he did not like, as the expression of an insipid and unoriginal character; besides, the memory of certain of his love affairs of which he was now ashamed was associated with such lanterns.
"Very warmish," said Gilks, with a scowl, which it was just as well for Wyndham's comfort he did not see. There was a silence, during which Gilks whistled to himself, and Silk regarded his ally with a smile. "You are a nice boy!" he broke out presently. And the laugh which greeted this very unoriginal observation closed the conversation for a time.
The great thing in originality is to have your idea out before any one else. As long as it's in your head and no one knows of it, you are no better off than the unoriginal many; but give your idea a shape and a name, and you are one of the original few. And the glory of being one of them is that you are sure to have one or two of Ebenezer's sort at your tail!
All the others did was to add a few slight improvements, for which they get all the credit due to the man without whom they would not have had an idea. This is, alas! very common, and cannot be avoided. You can't make a law against one boy imitating another, or even against his stepping into the credit due to you. It is as easy to be unoriginal as it is hard at times to be original.
Checked but not discouraged, Latimer attacked in force. "I can quite believe that," he agreed, "but there's this important difference: no matter how much a man wants to marry you, he can't LOVE you as I do!" "That's ANOTHER thing they think," sighed Helen. "I'm sorry to be so unoriginal," snapped Latimer. "PLEASE don't!" pleaded Helen. "I don't mean to be unfeeling. I'm not unfeeling.
It pleased him a great deal more that she should want to know precisely why he had named his monoplane the Golden Eagle than if Father or I had catechized him with the trained intelligence of a scientist. "I've been unoriginal enough, I'm afraid, to name my big baby after myself," he said, "my nickname being Eagle. The golden eagle, you know, is our national bird."
Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an herculean labor to pluck them.
Their really independent traits which, in response to this very premature excitation, can manifest themselves only in awkwardness, crudeness, and grotesque features, in short, their individuality is reproved and rejected by the teacher in favour of an unoriginal decent average.
The few words he had dashed on to the paper, enraptured at the thought of the happy hours they promised, had become mere jargon, and when he understood the idea it seemed foolish, dull, unoriginal.
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