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7 Quotes for 'Pretension' in the Database.

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 :: Topics »  Letter "P" »  Pretension Quotes
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Author: Booth Tarkington
Source: None
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.
Author: William James
Source: None
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
Source: None

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