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Letter "E" » Example
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other."
Author: Edmund Burke
About: Example
"Illustrious Predecessor."
Author: Edmund Burke
About: Example
"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"
Author: Robert Burton
About: Example
"This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,–
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte."
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
About: Example
"Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Example
"The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings;
and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
[Lat., Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]"
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
About: Example
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means."
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
About: Example
"Illustrious predecessors."
Author: Henry Fielding
About: Example
"Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Example
"Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd."
Author: George Granville, Lord Landsdowne
About: Example
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