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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
Aleister Crowley quotes (English poet, author, philosopher, 1875-1947)
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“The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength”

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“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”
Emmet Fox quotes (American influential Author and Lecturer, 1886-1951)
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“He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense”
Publilius Syrus quotes (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)

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“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
Tennessee Williams quotes (American playwright. 1911-1983)
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“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)
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“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
Noah Webster quotes (American Man of letter and lexicographer, known for his American Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language. 1758-1843)

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“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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pretense synonyms: dissembled, dissembling, feigning, guise, make-believe, pretence, pretending, pretends, pretension, pretensions, pretext, pretexts, simulation, simulations.

See also: pretenses.

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