Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. Charles Olson
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.