#pretext

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

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I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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