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en Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
  Seneca

en If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
  Henry David Thoreau

en She will not brag on herself. That's true. It's hard to get her to brag. The attention she's gotten, the awards she's received, she uses those as a platform to talk about issues that she thinks are important, not for self-aggrandizement.

en He would just brag and brag all of the time about the animals he killed.

en I can brag about (the blocks), but ultimately, they can brag about the win.

en I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
  Donald Marquis

en There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
  Voltaire

en If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en I think the balance is right - we've got decent size, decent speed and decent dexterity with the ball,

en We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

en And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; / Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

en On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a decent argument that he didn't. But if the president has a decent argument, he can't be impeached for getting it wrong.

en This is our last good, decent shot. Financially this is a decent deal, but if they don't perform, it's coming down, it's just that simple.

en Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

en It's like taking a leap of faith almost, leaving a decent job with decent benefits and doing something you really want to do, ... It's something I'm seriously considering. Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements.


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