quotes about Pretext
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
-- Carlo GoldoniSource : "La Villeggiatura", I, 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 182-83, 1922.
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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
-- D. A. Carson -
In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.
-- Khem Veasna -
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
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The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength
-- Paulo Coelho -
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
-- Randal Marlin -
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
-- Saint Basil