PLAGIARIZING HUMORS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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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