Is it a good practice to combine small portions of content from other sites?

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Hi Matt, Can a site still do well in Google if I copy only a small portion of content from different websites and create my own article by combining all, considering I will mention the source of that content (by giving their urls in the article)?
Rajesh, New Delhi, India

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