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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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There is no one who does not exaggerate! – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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