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Example quotes

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“Example is more powerful than precept.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.” Confucius, Analects

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“I may do some good before I am dead—be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Cato . . . used to assert, also, that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.” Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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Analects (1)
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1)
Ender's Game (1)
Jude the Obscure (1)
Parallel Lives (1)