| In the matter of slavish imitation, man
is the monkey's superior all the time. The average man is destitute of independence
of opinion. He is not interested in contriving a opinion of his own, by
study and reflection, but is only anxious to find out what his neighbor's
opinion is and slavishly adopt it. - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010) |
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| ...any strange and much-talked-of event
is always followed by imitation, the world being so well supplied with excitable
people who only need a little stirring up to make them lose what is left
of their heads and do mad things which they would not have thought of ordinarily. - "The United States of Lyncherdom" |
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Mark Twain
and Laurence Hutton at
Hutton's home in Onteora.
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