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All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention.
All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention.
Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Francis M. Voltaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Voltaire. · page_010
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