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- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus
- The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard
- Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. — Thomas Browne
- Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana
- The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur
- The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos
- Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly