Re: Source of quotation?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVINTERNET.COM>]

At 05:06 PM 8/16/02, Mark Shapiro, you wrote:
> Does anyone remember who it was that said something like:
>
> "Your talk presented information that is both new and interesting.
> Unfortunately, what is interesting is not new, and what is new is not
> interesting."
>
> Mark Shapiro
> http://irascibleprofessor.com

In the following archive can be found the proximate authors
of the following candidate attributions:
<http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v12/0468.html>

 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux,
in "The Edinburgh Review", 1802,
in a review of  "The Work of Thomas Young".

 "The Portable Curmudgeon" by Jon Winokur
  "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 JOHNSON" ??

In German "Das Gute war nicht neu, und das Neue war
nicht gut,"  is often attributed to Herder. ??

Bartlett's has one from Daniel Webster:
 "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
...from "Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner [May 10, 1847] ??



Brian Whatcott
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