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Cicero
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Seneca
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
William Hutton
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Penn
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
 
 
 
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