True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896)
Pretension · anthology attribution: Cicero
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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