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How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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