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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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.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book i, Dedication, Sect. 22

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