The Introductio does not boast an impressive number of editions, yet its influence was pervasive. In originality and in the richness of its scope it ranks among the greatest of textbooks; but it is outstanding also for clarity of exposition. Published two hundred and two years ago, it nevertheless possesses a remarkable modernity of terminology and notation, as well as of viewpoint. Imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery.
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Carl B. Boyer in "The Foremost Textbook of Modern Times" (1950)Leonhard Euler
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers
Goodman: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kael: I hate it. It is very creepy being imitated.Pauline Kael
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
Heinlein presents us, in terms of his sources and influences with a rope of many strands and the strength of the whole is in the multiplicity of the strands. To lift one strand out and examine it has two immediate effects: it magnifies the relative importance out of proportion to its place in the whole; and it weakens the whole. For all the good and interesting use Heinlein made of his encounter with Cabell, he was not a disciple or even a "Cabell minor." Rather, he used Cabellian materials to make his own figure in the world, and in so doing he has given the Biography of the Life of Manuel a Life of its own, flowing into literary history.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery — but in literature, transformation is the only form of progeny.Robert A. Heinlein
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