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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Boasting
Boast
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Dignity

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Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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