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Show DISRAELI AS A PLAGIARIST. Statesman Appropriated Brilliant Words of Other Men. A recently published volume on Disraeli Dis-raeli singles out us ono of tho most brilliant of Disraeli's sayings u sen tence which Hint statesman appropriated appro-priated without acknowledgment from Uacon's "lCssay of Great Place": "Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient times that which Is best, of the modern mod-ern times that which Is fittest." The most frequently quoted of all Disraeli's Dis-raeli's sayings was similarly appro-prltd appro-prltd by him without acknowledgment acknowledg-ment from Lord Shaftesbury: "Men of sense are all of the same religion." "And whnt Is that religion, my lord?" "That men of sense never tell." Disraeli, Dis-raeli, however, never himself appropriated appro-priated a Joke of Gladstone's which tho writer of tho new volume attributes at-tributes to his hero: "A deputation Is n noun of multitude, signifying many, but not much." |