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• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
• There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 44...