Hawkesworth said of Johnson, "You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world."
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Composers shouldn't think too muchâit interferes with their plagiarism.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised. - Isaac D'Israeli,
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.