Quotes with pretenses

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  • Henry Miller I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Billy Sunday If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • David Harold Fink Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
    David Harold Fink
    American author
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  • John Tillotson The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Camille Paglia There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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