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#pretence

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Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.


Charles Simmons


#find #fire #malice #mark #pretence

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.


Cassandra Clare


#cat #church #city-of-lost-souls #humor #pretence

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.


Vera Nazarian


#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.


George Berkeley


#alone #fight #free #indeed #liberty

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.


Tony Horwitz


#intimacy #pretence #shelby-foote #friendship

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.


Mary Astell


#commit #endure #greater #greatest #grief

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.


Mary Astell


#considerable #dignity #even #eyes #father

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.


Havelock Ellis


#alive #dragon #keeping #love #pretence

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


#counterfeit #even #fall #false #flowers

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.


James Russell Lowell


#character #foundation #impossible #pretence #saps






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