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Imitation quotes

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“as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Paradox though it may seem—and paradoxes are always dangerous things—it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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