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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson

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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Jean Cocteau

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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
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W. Winwood Reade

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Imitation
Carl Jung

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He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.
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Source Unknown

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Imitation belittles.
Imitation
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Imitation is suicide.
Imitation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Imitation
Fred A. Allen

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Gertrude Stein

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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Samuel Johnson

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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Sir Richard Steele

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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Salvador Dali

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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
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Wendell Phillips

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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Pablo Picasso

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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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Baltasar Gracian

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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Seneca

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
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Honore De Balzac

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