"Conformity is the ape of harmony."
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"Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly"
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"For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment."
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"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
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"Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels."
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"And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!"
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"The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals."
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"It is absurd to ape our betters."
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"The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]"
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"I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals."
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"What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment."
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"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
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