“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29
“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 48 - "At Encinitas In California"
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