Plagiarism Quotes
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“Libertas et natale solum.”
“Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.”
“Je reprends mon bien où je le trouve.”
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
“Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit primus.”
“Leurs écrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faits d'avance.”
“Who borrow much, then fairly make it known,
And damn it with improvements of their own.”
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“With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.”
“He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.”
“Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.”
“Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists.”
“For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.”
“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."”
“Steal!—to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”
“The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps:
The robes ye weave, another wears:
The arms ye forge another bears.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”