A quoting author is just as ridiculous as a country girl upon her first coming to town; who being decked up by the help of her friends, should make public acknowledgement from whom she received her stockings, her shirt, her stays, &c. so that if every person was there to claim their own, she would be left as naked as the jay in the fable; or as such a pye-bald author, say writer rather, say compiler, say publisher, say second-hand cook, who gives you a beggar’s dish out of fragments; or say printer’s sign-post, upon which are pasted the heterogeneous scraps of many authors. ~”Thoughts on Quotations,” The Town and Country Magazine; Or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, February 1776TPVgb, QE2
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