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Imitation
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“One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.”
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“Most imitators attempt the inimitable.”
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“... an imitator is always a poor example.”
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.”
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“Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.”
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“When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.”
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“He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.”
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“Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path; then, by all means, you should follow that path.”