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 PLAGIARISM PLAGIARISM Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent. Perish those who said our good things before we did. Aelius Donatus, according to St. Jerome—Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Ch. I. Referring to the words of Terence.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Plagiarism | page = 599 }}