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- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson
- If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt
- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying… — Eric Hoffer
- I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender
- I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual… — Augustus De Morgan
- All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered… — W. Somerset Maugham
- These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf
- For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the… — Thomas Merton
- Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld