Most men's guiding star is the example of others; that their whole course of life, in great things and in small, comes in the end to be mere imitation; and that not even in the pettiest matters do they act according to their own judgement...
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Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action.
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...At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is proof of his kinship with apes.
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