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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. – James Fenton

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Man is an idiot. He doesnt know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Imitation is the sincerest form of television. – Fred A. Allen

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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. – Baltasar Gracian

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