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Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles / Writer
Pretence
Simplicity
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I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.
Jacob Rees-Mogg /
Modern Man
Pretence
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Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Charles Simmons / Novelist
Fire
Malice
Mark
Pretence
Shoot
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I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.
Vikrant Massey /
Pretence
Remove
Curtain
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The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton / Novelist
Higher
Pretence
Pretension
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis / Physician
Jealousy
Jealous
Love
Alive
Dragons
Hate
Pretence
Dragon
Which
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I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.
Josh Widdicombe / Comedian
Pretence
Hamlet
Limitations
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn / Novelist
Elsewhere
England
Method
Pretence
Education More Than
Literary
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Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
Mary Renault / Writer
Enemy
Pretence
Weapons
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In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn / Novelist
Civilised
Community
Literature
Pretence
Prominent
Regions
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Communities
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell / Poet
Character
Foundation
Impossible
Pretence
Sap
Sincerity
Whole
Unless
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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 / Philosopher
Liberty
Pretence
Fight
Indeed
Outward
Truly
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Government
America
Care
People
Pretence
Government Must People
Government Care People
Labours
Taking
Wasting
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I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy / Screenwriter
Ideas
Lying
Pretence
Suspicious
Two
Whole
Life Love Work
Based
Between
Idea
Lie
Programmed
Spies
Two People
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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 / Writer
Commit
Endure
Greater
Grief
May
Ought
Pain
Pretence
Sin
Avoid
Least
Lesser
Nay
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Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike / Explorer
Instruction
Posts
Pretence
Territory
English
Direction
Flag
Immediate
No Time
Suffer
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See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
Sarita Choudhury /
Character
Enjoy
Heels
Pretence
Real Life
Traits
Life Love I Am
Actor
Life Love Character
Wear
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Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.
Stephen Graham Jones / Author
Activity
Being Real
Legitimacy
Paranormal
Pretence
Rhetoric
Thus
Uses
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Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no real cost to it, except to those like Charles Saatchi, rich enough to splash out on junk?
Roger Scruton / Philosopher
Junk
Just One
Pretence
Charles
Vast
Splash
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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 / Writer
Dignity
Eye
Father
Pretence
Relation
Son
Bear
Considerable
Indeed
Otherwise
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My obsession with hip-hop has given me an addiction to trainers, which are very much a young person's game, and I am known to rock a full tracksuit, under the pretence that it's more comfortable to travel in.
Romesh Ranganathan /
Addiction
Obsession
Pretence
Trainers
Travel I Am Me
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The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance - better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.
Michael Wolff /
Balanced
Ground Zero
Pretence
Established
Donald Trump
Requiring
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The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Ai Weiwei / Contemporary Artist
Imagination
Art World
Chinese
Human Rights
Impossible
Independent
Passion
Pretence
Calls
Exist
Freedoms
Totalitarian
Violates
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I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.
Gina Miller /
Lawyer
Parliament
Pretence
Sovereign
Learns
Overriding
Personalities
Trained
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I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.
Ruth Negga / Film Actress
Lovely
Movie Star
Pretence
What You Love
Love Business Myself
Disappears
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The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip' of their house - from which the collected raindrops would fall - in the hopes of catching any juicy tid-bits of information that might come their way from their neighbour's property.
Susie Dent / Lexicographer
Air
Catching
Fresh Air
Juicy
Neighbour
Pretence
People Information Way
Collected
Information People Way
Hopes
Originally
Referred
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