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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

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.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."