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1 You seem to make pretenses of being cultivated, captain.
2 She had the inability to make pretenses , either to others or to herself, which characterizes stupid people and also the large, simple natures.
3 But nobody thinks less of a man for that in the world; the most one can ask is that he does not make pretenses .
4 These fellows have got so used to making pretenses that they actually deceive themselves.
5 Of course we-some of us-makepretenses-all sorts of silly pretenses.
6 "You think me a weak, clinging creature, not able to do anything but make pretenses . "
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