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Novelty quotes

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“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

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