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"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." »William Penn
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"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." »William Penn
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"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." »William Hutton
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"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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