Dear @hivewatchers,

For someone who prided himself as an honest and upright person, it hurts my pride to think that there might be people who think I am a selfish, self-serving plagiarist.

I was under the impression that I can use information from elsewhere as long as it is less than 30% of the content of the post. Obviously, I was mistaken.

Having read through your guide “Why and How People Abuse and Plagiarise”, I realised where my mistake was. It is - I should have credit the source even if it was just a couple of lines. For this, I humbly apologise for not having realised it earlier. I shall bear that in mind from here on.

I hope that I will be fogiven for not knowing better before. I will strive to be more conscientious and not make the same mistake.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Yours Sincerely!

P.S.

I have been collecting quotes since my school days - almost 50 years!. I have a huge collection of them. They are all on my blog at Blogger https://anetizen.blogspot.com/

In those days, there were no internet. I collected them from 'Reader's digest', (if you are old enough to know this magazine), books, mazagines - wherever I came across them.

All the quotes from the 'What is Beauty' post is from my own blog.
https://anetizen.blogspot.com/2011/12/beauty.html