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81 " Imitation is suicide. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
82 " I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead. "
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
83 " Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else. "
― Tom Hayes
84 " But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form. "
― Plutarch , Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
85 " If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else. "
― E'yen A. Gardner , Love Letters
86 " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion. "