Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.


As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234.


Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.