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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. - Joseph Addison There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them. - Henry Ward Beecher Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. - Henry Brooke Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. - Joseph Hall Deeds of lowly virtue fade before the glare of lofty ostentation. - Friedrich O. Klopstock Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. - William Penn Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. - William Penn They used to think they were doing God a favor to print His name in capital letters. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts; and looks itself in the face without pretence of worship. - John Weiss
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