After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. – H.L. Mencken, about Shakespeare

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I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779

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I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. – Robert Burns

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To be amused by what you read — that is the great spring of happy quotations. – C.E. Montague (1867–1928), “Quotation”

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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive… – Desiderius Erasmus, De Copia, 1512, translated

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