Retire, Father; this is no business for Monks: I will meet this presumptuous man myself.

The presumptuous man loves to attempt great things, only because they are hard and rare.

Don't have anything to say to any presumptuous man who may try to lure you away.

In favour of the presumptuous man, who wantonly incurs danger and braves temptation, heaven will not interest itself.

In this way presumption is opposed to magnanimity by excess: because the presumptuous man attempts great deeds beyond his ability.

And when thou speakest of the Divine Principle as One, dost thou not, O presumptuous man, depopulate the Halls of Ida?

Thus it is evident that the presumptuous man sometimes falls short of the magnanimous in reality, although in appearance he surpasses him.

There are certain things all respectable people have agreed to regard as right: he is a presumptuous man who refuses to regard them.

It is the presumptuous men, confident in their own strength, who are sure to get beaten.

'I will catch him, though the D-l take me,' said the presumptuous man.

'That is a presumptuous man,' he said, pointing to the keeper.

"O proud revolt of a presumptuous man," etc.