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People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions – Rooma Mehra	added by sheila_m 1 month ago
People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions – Rooma Mehra	added by sheila_m 1 month ago
People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions – Rooma Mehra	added by sheila_m 1 month ago
People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions – Rooma Mehra	added by sheila_m 1 month ago
[I]f we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 3 years ago
This destabilizes European democracies, we need to start the debate about the future of our continent honestly, without the muzzle of' political correctness', without pretence, talking straight. – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Everyone is operating under the pretence that editing and streamlining for long enough will actually produce a coherent and short text with clearly defined alternatives for ministers to review. – Jonathan Grant	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The six, those are just the first six. Those absolutely won't be accepted as the 30 percent that they wanted to replace, the Greeks know that too, by the way, they don't have any pretence that this is it. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea. – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 13 years ago

People do not relate to softness anymore - in talk or under the guise of misunderstanding - they seem satisfied when they have proved to themselves that softness was feigned or blatant pretence and they were right in thinking hard and ugly thoughts of sarcasm, spite or other hurtful intentions

– Rooma Mehra

added by sheila_m
1 month ago

– Rooma Mehra

added by sheila_m
1 month ago

– Rooma Mehra

added by sheila_m
1 month ago

– Rooma Mehra

added by sheila_m
1 month ago

[I]f we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
3 years ago

This destabilizes European democracies, we need to start the debate about the future of our continent honestly, without the muzzle of' political correctness', without pretence, talking straight.

– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everyone is operating under the pretence that editing and streamlining for long enough will actually produce a coherent and short text with clearly defined alternatives for ministers to review.

– Jonathan Grant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The six, those are just the first six. Those absolutely won't be accepted as the 30 percent that they wanted to replace, the Greeks know that too, by the way, they don't have any pretence that this is it.

– Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

– Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

– Robert Frost

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

– Hazlitt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

– Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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