#imitate

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ↗