Imitation cannot go above its model. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). Nat…

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Imitation cannot go above its model. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p.143, The Minerva Group, Inc.
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