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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

  Edward Irving

  Ignorance, Pride, Scotland

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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  Sallust

  Law, Bravery, Victory

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• Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War”, p.4, Renaissance EBooks

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• Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Country, Labor Day, News

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• Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Virtue

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• Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

  John Piper

  Pride, Form, Conditions

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Saint, Punctuality

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Church

  "History of the Church", 6:408, May 26, 1844.

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• Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Bragging, Ass, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

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• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  Owen D. Young

  Dignity, Ends

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• The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luck, Literature, Conviction

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mean, Benefits, Literature

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loyal Customers, Focus In Business, Great Customer Service

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• The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Self, Human Nature

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.427, Spectra

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• It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

  Matthew Henry

  Church, Common

  Matthew Henry “Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-II - Jeremiah to Lamentations”, Lulu.com

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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• The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Losing, Modern

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

  Stephen Hawking

  Education, Science, People

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Poet

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.47

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Literature, Shoulders

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.65, 谷月社

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• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humanity, Literature, Becoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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