PLAGIARIZING HUMORS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
And this I sweare by blackest brooke of hell,
I am no pick-purse of another’s wit.
Sir Philip Sidney
Yet these mine owne, I wrong not other men,
Nor traffique farther then this happy clime,
Nor filch from Portes, nor from Petrarchs pen,
A fault too common in this latter time.
Divine Sir Philip, I avouch thy writ,
I am no pick-purse of anothers wit.
Michael Drayton
A thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
James Russell Lowell