Art of Persuasion

Imitation Exercises

Model:

If one must worship a bully, it is better that he should be a policeman than a gangster.

Imitation:

If you like authority, best wield it in the ways of bureaucracy than the ways of the street.

Model:

To have even a portion of this illuminated reason and true philosophy is the highest state to which nature can aspire, in the way of intellect.

Imitation:

To understand her thinking, even if only a fragment of it, is the most I can expect of myself, in the way of relationship.

Model:

The real art that dealt with life directly was that of the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.

Imitation:

The first woman to steal my heart covertly was she who told everything without speaking a word.