Quotes with counterfeit

  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Lord George Byron Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. S. Forester Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Marcel Proust Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Hosea Ballou Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. F. Skinner The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Honoré de Balzac You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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