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Quotations
On Boasting
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- Where
there is much pretension,
much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.—Lavater.
- Where
boasting ends, there dignity
begins.—Young.
Conceit,
more rich in
matter than in words,
Brags of
his substance,
not of ornament:
They are
but beggars
that can count their worth. —Shakespeare.
- A
gentleman that loves to hear
himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a
month.—Shakespeare.
- The
less
people speak of their
greatness the more we think of it.—Bacon.
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- Men of
real merit, and whose
noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be
endured when they vaunt their own actions.—Æschines.
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