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“Example is more powerful than precept.”
Aesop
,
Aesop's Fables
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain
,
Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”
Confucius
,
Analects
“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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