"Do not look only at yourself, and you……" — Laozi
"Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure."
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come.…
— Rachel Maddow
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could…
— Mark Twain
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Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
— Richard Crashaw
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and…
— Bill Maher
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their…
— William Shakespeare
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You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't…
— Unknown Author
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I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to…
— Adam Brody
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I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret...
— Nas
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I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
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