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“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3473b189aa745d050e9aabedde86d32e5395acbc1708d9cbcf97a962f9c36cc2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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