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- It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an… — Washington Irving
- The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks
- Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,… — Dean Koontz
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken
- The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — William J. Clinton
- There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. — Rumi
- I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin