When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. – Anatole France, “The Creed”

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Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition…. [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem… send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality. – Frances Brooke, Lady Julia Mandeville , 1763

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