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What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable

Quote byHenry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux · 1778–1868

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: From The Edinburgh Review, The Work of Thomas Young (c. 1802).

English (original)

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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