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Conceits aren’t facts: “Heritage is not history,” to borrow the scholar David Lowenthal’s distinction, but instead “what people make of their history to make themselves feel good.”

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

Conceits that became central to the enterprise cropped up at random moments.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2017

This jest is transplanted by Johnson, with very little alteration, into the Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, 1607.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

Conceits are altogether out of keeping with marble.

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

Campion termed his verses Light Conceits of Lovers.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various