An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

— François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
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