Wallace Notestein

The name in the evidence

Notestein is the leading authorship candidate in Quote Investigator’s chronology. Baker and Wilson Mizner appear in later stages of the saying’s circulation.

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“If You Steal From One Author, It's Plagiarism; If You Steal From Many, It's Research”

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