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• There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
• He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine
• Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy… — Henry Watson Fowler
• A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror — Wilhelm Steinitz
• A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his… — Anthony Trollope
• I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a… — Jude Law
• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great… — Henry Walter Bates
• Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. — Lesley Howarth
• Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True… — J.R. Miller
• The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide… — Laozi
• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson
• I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to… — Michel de Montaigne

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