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“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic”
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“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.”
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“They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes
last is commonly best.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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“Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse--
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,
Defacing first, then claiming for his own.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Apology (l. 232)
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“Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of
other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for
they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and
image of the one as much as of the other.”
Sir William Davenant Quotes Source: Gondibert--Preface
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“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all
sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other
authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner
that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to
recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so
skillfully shall the whole be disguised.
- Isaac D'Israeli,”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Curiosities of Literature--Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity
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“Perish those who said our good things before we did.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]”
Aelius Donatus Quotes Source: Commentary on Ecclesiastes (ch. I), according to St. Jerome, referring to the words of Terence
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“When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that
a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is
entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at
discretion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his
own nose, is lyke a foole.”
Stephen Gosson Quotes Source: In the School of Abuse--Loyterers
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“When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: Barrack-Room Ballads--Introduction
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“My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is
yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 53)
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“Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you
to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why
do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass
for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be
able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. X, ep. 100)
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“For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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“I recover my property wherever I find it.
[Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Les Fourberies de Scapin, Cyrano de Bergerac used a scene in "Pedant Joue" communicated to him by Mo
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“The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey
of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or
marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform
and mix up into a work all his own.
[Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en
font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny
marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les
transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXV)
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“Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one,
disguising and altering it for some new service.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays--Of Physiognomy
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“He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Florio, the Bas Blue
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“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all
wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,
to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes Source: Lecture--The Lost Arts
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“Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation.
[Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]”
Alexis Piron Quotes Source: La Metromanie (III, 6)
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“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,
And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 127)
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“With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 618)
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“The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes Source: Song--To Men of England
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