61 Beautiful Emulation Quotes And Sayings

Emulation is the effort to act like someone else 1. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. June Jordan 2. I like to think I’m like water that adapts to it’s Read More…

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Source: Samuel Johnson, quoted by Thomas Stothard in Harrison’s British Classicks: Dr. Johnson’s Rambler. Lord Lyttleton’s page: 399.