Quotes with pretences

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• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

  John Buchan
  Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• comfortable
• counterfeit
• spreads
• flowers
• ground

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