If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780–1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist

Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)
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