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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art, Philosophy, Loss
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.58
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.