• 28th August 2011

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  • Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, almost 2000 years ago, in book ten of Institutio Oratoria (He continues: “First, we must consider whom to imitate….Secondly, we must consider what it is that we should set ourselves to imitate in the authors thus chosen.”)

    vruz: “Plagiarism is necessary. It’s implicit in the idea of progress.”  We’ve always known it.

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Quintilian copying imitation education steal like an artist

A QUOTE

[In] art no small portion of our task lies in imitation…it is a universal rule of life that we should wish to copy what we approve in others. It is for this reason that boys copy the shapes of letters that they may learn to write, and that musicians take the avoids of their teachers, painters the works of their predecessors…

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