Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel JohnsonNay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Samuel JohnsonDepend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.
Samuel Johnson