Plagiarism

(231 votes)   Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

George Moore
1852-1933, Irish Writer

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(138 votes)   Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(124 votes)   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.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(85 votes)   The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(85 votes)   There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(84 votes)   He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(75 votes)   I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

B. B. King
1925-, American Blues Singer, Guitarist

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(73 votes)   Nothing is new except arrangement.

William J. Durant
1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist

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(72 votes)   Perish those who said our good things before we did.

Donatus

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(70 votes)   The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling
1905-1975, American Critic

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(69 votes)   Genius Borrows nobly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(65 votes)   They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.

Jovius

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(61 votes)   Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

Bryan Waller Proctor

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(60 votes)   So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.

Peter Townsend
British Singer, Songwriter

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