"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

Billings, Josh · Plagiarism · 2 fans >>
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"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."

Burton, Sir Richard · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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"And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale."

Cervantes, Miguel De · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Debord, Guy · Plagiarism · 2 fans >>
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"Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation."

Disraeli, Benjamin · Plagiarism · 0 fans >>
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"Perish those who said our good things before we did."

Donatus · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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"He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him."

Dryden, John · Plagiarism · 0 fans >>
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"Nothing is new except arrangement."

Durant, William J. · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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"Genius Borrows nobly."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Plagiarism · 1 fans >>
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