"Plagiarist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Shakespeare improved it, added incidents and characters, fused the whole situation in the divine fire of his genius. But some characters and the general outline of the plot he borrowed. We don't say he stole them. We don't call him a plagiarist, Miss Wales." ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... in the assertion of the identity of contradictories. The multitudinous philosophies may thus be reduced to a single quaternion, and the reputed inaugurator of a new philosophy is like to be a charlatan. So history seems but a plagiarist. ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle
... senkompata. Pity kompati, bedauxri. Pity, it is a estas domagxo. Pivot akso. Placable kvietebla, kvietema. Placard afisxo, kartego. Place (to put) meti. Place loko. Place, a public placo. Place of abode restadejo. Placid kvieta. Plagiarist verkosxtelisto. Plague pesto—ego. Plague-stricken (person) pestulo. Plain malbela. Plain senornama. Plainly simple, klare. Plainness simpleco. Plaint plendo. Plaintive plenda. Plait (with straw) ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... was well enough known in England that Milton had carried into his epic English poem a few Latin verses from the tragedy of "Adam." It is in no wise to be a plagiarist to enrich one's language with the beauties of a foreign language. No one accused Euripides of plagiarism for having imitated in one of the choruses of "Iphigenia" the second book of the Iliad; on the ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... jabs in the air with your forefinger when you quote. Otherwise you're a plagiarist. Let me see." Esme ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
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