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«The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived»
Author: George James | About: Being a Woman | Keywords: boast
«We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.»
«The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave»
«Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.»
Author: Louis L'Amour | Keywords: boast, covered
«We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God's approval, and His approval brings hope (Romans 3:4-5).»
Author: Bible | About: God, Hope, Trouble | Keywords: approval, boast, endurance, produces, Romans, troubles
«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
«Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion»
«We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry»
«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.»
«We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned»

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