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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
—Mark Twain

The honor is overpaid when he that did the act is commentator.
—James Shirley

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater

No more delay, vain boaster, but begin.
—John Dryden

It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
—William Shakespeare