Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from,—as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches’ pockets.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Table Talk [January 4, 1823]

Alone, alone, all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, IV, st. 3

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Biographia Literaria (1817), ch. 1

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If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

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“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from,—as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches’ pockets.”

“Alone, alone, all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea.”

“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”

“Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”