So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. – Peter Townsend Category: Plagiarism
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Category: Plagiarism
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden Category: Plagiarism
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes Category: Prison
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971 Category: Art
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. – James J. Corbett Category: Patience