Patient Merit. The Doctor of Philosophy (made in Germany) to Our Own John Washington Irving: ' So you do not think that Shakespeare had an original mind ?' "Oub Own John ' Washington Ibving : ' No, Ido not. Why, just look over his writings and you'll find thousands of instances where he used whole sentences that are in everybody's mouth, and as common as household words. Compare his works with my writings, for instance, and you'll see he's not a bit orginal. These dead authors have plagiarised wholesale from me. And yet I don't make a fuss about it.'
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Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 949, 6 March 1897, Page 7
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95Patient Merit. The Doctor of Philosophy (made in Germany) to Our Own John Washington Irving: ' So you do not think that Shakespeare had an original mind ?' "Oub Own John' Washington Ibving : ' No, Ido not. Why, just look over his writings and you'll find thousands of instances where he used whole sentences that are in everybody's mouth, and as common as household words. Compare his works with my writings, for instance, and you'll see he's not a bit orginal. These dead authors have plagiarised wholesale from me. And yet I don't make a fuss about it.' Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 949, 6 March 1897, Page 7
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