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Further while emulation promotes
progress in the more advanced pupils, beginners who
are still of tender years derive greater pleasure from
imitating their comrades than their masters, just
because it is easier. For children still in the elementary stages of education can scarce dare hope to
reach that complete eloquence which they understand to be their goal: their ambition will not soar
so high, but they will imitate the vine which has to
grasp the lower branches of the tree on which it is
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trained before it can reach the topmost boughs.
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