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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to read more
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
[Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
