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«What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.»
Author: Claud Cockburn
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conspire, idiotically, impose, positions, prig, prigs, sagacious, satirist, Satirists, well-intentioned, wickedly
«Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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conceit, Laws of nature, madmen, prig, prigs, quarter, sakes, the laws of nature, three-quarter
«It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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libertine, Libertines, prig, prigs
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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