When Shakespeare is charged 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."
I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words
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Stanley Victor Paskavich
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.
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Fennel Hudson
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
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Henry Burton
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
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Walter Colton
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
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Charlotte Cushman
More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
