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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ↗

— Confucius

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

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Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ↗

— William Penn

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

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