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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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