#betray

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#betray #change #far #felt #hopes

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cause #faith #intolerance #want

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. ↗

— Jean Genet

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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. ↗

— Titus Livius

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

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God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#betraying #cross #feel #god #him

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. ↗

— Greil Marcus

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