A writer jn the "Spectator," not by any means uniriendlv to Disraeli nor unmindful of his genius, sets out, in 17 paragraphs, the bulk of the phrases which he made famous. They are all plagiarisms, it seems. Many of them clearly are. but for all to have been taken by him from their
original sources he must have read and remembered half the literature of the world. One of the offences alleged against him is that of borrowing the "exhausted volcauo " simile from a speech by Wilkes. "Thanks, it looks like a crib." answered Disraeli when sho.ved him the similarity : "but it is the first time I knew Wilkes had ever said anything worth repeating and lit for publication.—"Evening Standard."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7
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