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• I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
  Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
  Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,
  Intending deep suspicion.

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Looks, Sides

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

  Cher

  Female, Half, Body

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• If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

  Nick Turse

  Government, Guides, Your Future

  "Misremembering America’s Wars, 2003-2053" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Italian, Fake

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• The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

  Ron Paul

  Historical, Federal Reserve, Reserves

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• Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Art, Mean, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Knowing, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.9

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• He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

  John Dryden

  Curiosity, Behind The Scenes, Behinds

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• True modesty is a discerning grace
  And only blushes in the proper place;
  But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
  Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear:
  Humility the parent of the first,
  The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

  William Cowper

  Humility, Vanity, Parent

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.125

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• If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.

  Jerry Falwell

  Sick, Males, Offensive

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• Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sacrifice, Counterfeit Money

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

  Thomas Browne

  Philosophy, Real, School

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.25

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Small Changes, People

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• There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Christian Life

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1961). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Broken, Camels

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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

  John Milton

  Light, Glowing, Rooms

  "Il Penseroso" l. 79 (1645)

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• Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

  James Madison

  Opposites, Liberty, Assuming

  "Rights of Man". Book by Thomas Paine, 1791.

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• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
  And many maiden gardens yet unset,
  With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
  Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
  So should the lines of life that life repair
  Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
  Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
  Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

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• Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Sacrifice, Pay, Oath

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• Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Effort

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