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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

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.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.