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"Indeed, right is with us and in us, and there is no one else who says this but that he is a liar and an impostor."
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor."
"Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill."
"Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous"
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying ‘This is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders; how much misery and horror the human race would have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes and filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: ‘Beware of listening to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and the earth itself belongs to no one!”"
"To some extent, of course, we are all impostors. We play roles on the stage of life, presenting a public self that differs from the private self we share with intimates and morphing both selves as circumstances demand. Displaying a facade is part and parcel of the . Indeed, one reason the feeling of being an impostor is so widespread is that society places enormous pressure on people to stifle their real selves."