For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John MiltonFor such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarรจ.
John Milton