It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not
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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all bra
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And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetica
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor
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The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that ex
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
As one young starlet asked, with annoyance and pretension, "What has Marilyn got? And how can I get it?" A large part of the answe
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessi
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How dwarfed against his manliness
She sees the poor pretension, ...
She sees the poor pretension, ...
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