Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
“I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.”
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”