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- Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
- True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington
- If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live… — Seneca the Younger
- Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified… — Charles Dickens
- In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the… — Mooji
- I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — Saint Augustine
- Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
- I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman
- Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and… — Jean-Paul Marat
- And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron