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“Example is more powerful than precept.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“an example is not necessarily an example to be followed” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“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
“In the eyes of the world, we're doomed, but if, after all this suffering, there are still Jews left, the Jewish people will be held up as an example.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“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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