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  ...feriarentur fortasse typographi vel ideo scribendum est aliquid ut se vixisse testentur_. As apothecaries we make new mixtures everyday, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. _Castrant alios ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffarciant_ (so [80]Jovius inveighs.) They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.   s. _Ineruditi fures_, &c. A fault that every writer finds, as I do now, and yet faulty themselves, [81]_Trium literarum homines_, all thieves; they pilfer out of old writers to stuff up their new comments, scrape Ennius' dunghills, and out of [82]Democritus' pit, as I have done. By which means it comes to pass, [83]"that not only libraries and shops are full of our putrid papers, but every close-stool and jakes," _Scribunt carmina quae legunt cacantes_; they serve to put under pies, to...   Burton, Sir Richard

Excerpt from The Anatomy of Melancholy · This quote is about plagiarism · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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