Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemor…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). The Idiot (Vintage Classics), p.326, Vintage
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