7. I burglarized Disraeli's quote from the intellect of Thomas Mallon (Stolen Words, 1989). As both Mallon and Alexander Lindey (Plagiarism and Originality, 1952) note, Disraeli's highmindedness might have rung truer had he himself not plagiarized his funeral oration for the Duke of Wellington from Louis Adolphe Thiers's funeral oration for General Saint-Cyr.