Pretense Quotes
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Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.
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Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
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Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
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I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship.
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(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.
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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.
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...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.
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This is only a most piteous pretense of sleep!
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I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your essence and strips you of every pretense. It reminds you that you are no better than all the women who have come before you, but also no worse.
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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become.
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
