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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify…
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to…
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
— Seneca the Younger
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every…
— William Hazlitt
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of…
— William Penn
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Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish…
— Joyce Cary
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does…
— Al-Ghazali
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…
— Horace Mann
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