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[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Jan Ivarsson TransEdit wrote:

> Stevenson's Book of Quotations has:
> "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
>    Lord Brougham, Essay: The Work of Thomas Young. (Edinburgh Review)
>    Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham and Vaux, English Lord Chancellor and historical writer (1778-1868)
>
> Pelle Holm, Bevingade ord, has an older citation:
> "Dein redseliges Buch lehrt mancherlei Neues und Wahres,
> Waere das Wahre nur neu, waere das Neue nur wahr!
>    J.H. Voss, Musenalmanach 1792, p.71, "Auf mehrere Buecher".

The Brougham is the earliest version I have.  The Johnson quote is
undoubtedly apocryphal.  Thanks for the Voss, which I did not have.

Fred Shapiro

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