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Imitation cannot rise above its model and condemns the imitator to mediocrity
Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said
What Ralph Waldo Emerson actually said
- Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
Imitation cannot go above its model. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
Where this was said
↗Miscellanies: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Phillips, Sampson, 1856)gutenberg.org
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