Again, you may plagiarise yourself, if you can, it
is not easy, but it is a safe way to fail if you can manage it. No
successful person, perhaps, was ever, in the strict sense, a plagiarist,
though charges of plagiary are always brought against everybody, from
Virgil to Milton, from Scott to Moliere, who attains success. When you
are accused of being a plagiarist, and shewn up in double columns, you
may be pretty sure that all this counsel has been wasted on you, and that
you have failed to fail, after all. Otherwise nobody would envy and
malign you, and garble your book, and print quotations from it which you
did not write, all in the sacred cause of morality.
Advice on how to secure the reverse of success should not be given to
young authors alone. Their kinsfolk and friends, also, can do much for
their aid. A lady who feels a taste for writing is very seldom allowed
to have a quiet room, a quiet study. If she retreats to her chill and
fireless bed chamber, even there she may be chevied by her brothers,
sisters, and mother. It is noticed that cousins, and aunts, especially
aunts, are of high service in this regard.
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