{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["about","blame","bully","depression","envy","happening","happiness","happy","haters","hatred","impress","impression","jealousy","loser","michael-bassey-johnson","non-achiever","note","nothing","pleasing-someone","show-off","someone","trying","unhappy","write-off"],"id":6480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.","author":"Mokokoma 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something new to show off.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["consumerism","employee","employment","friendship","hardship","materialism","problem","rough-patch","show-off"],"id":107311,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["clothes","clothing","conspicuous-consumption","expensive","image","impression","poor","prosperity","show-off"],"id":119380,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.","author":"Rita Mae Brown","tags":["comedy","comedy-humor","comic","comic-books","comics","humor-inspirational","jared-wheat","opportunities","opportunity","opportunity-temptation","reason","reasons","sense-of-humor","show-off","show-offs","showing-off"],"id":124522,"author_id":"Rita+Mae+Brown"},{"text":"Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility 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