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* Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

* A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

* Genius borrows nobly. 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.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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