#pretended

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. ↗

— David Sedaris

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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. ↗

— Cary Grant

#finally #i #me #person #pretended

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#attributes #created #days #estimate #his

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ↗

— George Washington

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