Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

Posterity is grateful if our contemporaries are not.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from

Plagiarism is trying to pass someone else's work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Existing is plagiarism.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.

The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.

if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.

He who can copy can do.