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Pretence Definition  
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn

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

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Charles Simmons

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell






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