I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
Imitation is the sincerest flattery
Imitation is the sincerest flattery
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to read more
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
[Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wax, and read more
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his
name to a glassy sea.
[Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iule ceratis ope Daedalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.]
