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«If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.»
«Love is patient; love is kindand envies no one.Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;never selfish, not quick to take offense.There is nothing love cannot face;there is no limit to its faith,its hope, and endurance.In a word, there are three thingsthat last forever: faith, hope, and love;but the greatest of them all is love.»
«Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it»
«Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.»
«An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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«For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.»
«MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«My sentence is for open war; of wiles, / More unexpert, I boast not.»
«Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke»
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