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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
Robert Browning
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Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our Boasts out-do the Sabine girls the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.

nathalia crane

— "Our Lovers"

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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!

Robert Browning

— Stanza xvii.

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The man who Boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary.


— 1922  Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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We shall march prospering, not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us, not from his lyre; Deeds will be done, while he Boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

Robert Browning

— The lost Leader, ii.

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While Franklin 's quiet memory climbs to heaven, Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven, Or drawing from the no less kindled earth Freedom and peace to that which Boasts his birth; While Washington 's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.

lord byron

— St. 5 (The Age of Bronze (1823))

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A town that Boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Pt. I, The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth

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[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody Boasts of practising it.

josé ortega y gasset

— Chapter XV: We Arrive At The Real Question

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Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost Boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that Boasts about not having read any poem.

carlo rovelli

— Il Sole 24 Ore cultural supplement, October 17, 2010.

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He, that noble prize possessing He that Boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

friedrich von schiller

— Stanza 3. (An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785))

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Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring Boasts from his little throat.

william cullen bryant

— William Cullen Bryant, Robert of Lincoln.

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Bengaluru also Boasts of having the largest number of households with an annual income of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) or more.


— Rediff Business Desk, in "India's hottest IT destinations".

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To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty Boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

george henry lewes

— George Henry Lewes, The Spanish Drama, Chapter III.

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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.


— John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963.

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Slung along the banks of the wide Mandovi River, Panaji (also still widely known by its former Portuguese name Panjim), Goa’s small and spritely state capital since 1843, Boasts its own laid-back brand of originality. Purpose-built neat and tidy by its former Portuguese colonisers, the city’s inhabitants have adapted its European-flavoured legacy to suit their affluent and easygoing needs.


— Lonely Planet, in Introducing Panaji

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