"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
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"All art is an imitation of nature."
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
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"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
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"We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing."
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"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
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"I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business"
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"Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural."
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"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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"We learn by observation, imitation and repetition."
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"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."
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"Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]"
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"The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations."
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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 effectually, but more pleasantly."
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"No one ever became great by imitation."
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"...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself."
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"Whatever is well said by another, is mine."
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"The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself."
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"The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation."
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