Imitation Quotes
These are some of the best 'Imitation' quotations and sayings.
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A good imitation is the most perfect originality.
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Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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Every kind of imitation speaks the person that imitates inferior to him whom he imitates, as the copy is to the original.
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
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Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions, and actions of others.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
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We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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We imitate only what we believe and admire.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
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