230.--Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good … — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
230.--Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil without producing the like. We imitate good actions by emulation, and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons until example liberates.
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