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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

Good, Men, Teacher

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Children, Between, Learn

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Life, Good, Men

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

Good, Children, Listening

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

Successful, Islam, Person

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

Nothing, Produce

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman, Human, Said

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature, Mature, Poets

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

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

Time, Good, Strong

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

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature, Artists, Mature

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal

She, Marvellous, Caprice

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal

Ways, Distance, Fifty

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.
Eric Hoffer

Words, Eyes, Others

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

Character, Person, Others

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

God, Works, Above

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

Reason, Example, Characters

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

Love, Good, Trying

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Ernst Fischer

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Leslie Fiedler

Good, Easy, Writer

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Off, Show

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith

Winners, Lose, Behavior

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian

Words, Her, Child

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
Ellie Goulding

Wrong, Honest, American

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

Good, Composer, Steals

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Pericles

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
Mia Wasikowska

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