"Humility is often only feigned submission which people……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That… — Joseph Brodsky
• The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy… — Gayle Forman
• He couldn't say it. He couldn't tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy… — CJ Roberts
• The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. — Lord Byron
• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first… — Sarah Orne Jewett
• To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of… — Warren St. John
• Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. — Barbara Kingsolver
• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had… — Vladimir Nabokov
• The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where… — Milan Kundera
• It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that… — Victoria Alexander

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