Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
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Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Those who boast are not respected."
Aeschylus
Playwright
"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen."
Edward Young
Poet, Playwright
"Where boasting ends, there dignity begins."
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"If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying."
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"Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside."
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"You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast."
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"Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses."
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"A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of."
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"We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest."
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet."
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"Those who boast are seldom the great."
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"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?"
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"I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility."
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"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change."
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"Having my freedom, boast of nothing else."
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"He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style."
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"The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it."
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"Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty."
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"A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society."
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"And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
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"The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge."
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"A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted."
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