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Updated: June 10, 2025
'No, not ONE little song, replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled as he noticed the trembling lip of the poor disappointed Toad. 'It's no good, Toady; you know well that your songs are all conceit and boasting and vanity; and your speeches are all self-praise and and well, and gross exaggeration and and 'And gas, put in the Badger, in his common way.
Else, superannuated though I am and young in years thou art, I would quell thy desire for battle and crush thy hope of life! What canst thou, therefore, do to me? They that are good, do not approve self-praise. Infamous wretch of thy race, know that I indulge in little boast because I am enraged.
Fie on my prowess. Since Drona, although he had a son in me, had his locks seized! I shall, therefore, O chief of the Bharatas, now achieve that by which I may be freed from the debt I owe to my sire, now gone to the other world. He that is good never indulges in self-praise. Unable, however, to brook the slaughter of my sire, I speak of my prowess.
His face was alight with greed, and as he turned and the sunlight played upon him, triumph flashed in his eyes. He stayed to signal another message of self-praise to Natalie, and then for the first time he saw Mrs. Goring on board his own vessel. The swift change in his aspect was terrible.
But being made a friend, and asked by thee, O friend, I will answer thee, although self-praise without reason is ever improper. I can bear, on a single feather of mine, O Sakra, this Earth, with her mountains and forests and with the waters of the ocean, and with thee also stationed thereon.
"More honest than moonlight, gracious lady, for that deceives every one; and less honest than self-praise, for that deceives no one." "My friend, you have a ready wit." "My wit is like a bustling servant, gracious lady; always ready when not wanted, and never present at a pinch." "Come, I must have a pair of your chamois bracelets. How sell you them?"
"And then, a trap will be set for you, and some fine morning you and your husband will wake up in a prison cell, to be tried for your lives " "I?" cried La Cibot, "I that have not a farthing that doesn't belong to me?... I!... I!" For five minutes she held forth, and Fraisier watched the great artist before him as she executed a concerto of self-praise.
For this reason custom has established it as a rule, in common societies, that men should not indulge themselves in self-praise, or even speak much of themselves; and it is only among intimate friends or people of very manly behaviour, that one is allowed to do himself justice.
Trust me, this plan, if acted on and I feel it cannot be long neglected will do more to put pretension on a par with desert, than all the adjourned debates that waste the sessions; it would save a world of unblushing self-praise and laudation, and protect the country from the pushing impertinence of a set of turned-off servants.
An amusing expression of this self-praise has come down to us in the puff he composed on the occasion of a reprint of the Shagreen Skin by Gosselin in 1832. "The Philosophic Tales of Monsieur de Balzac," it announced, "have appeared this week. The Shagreen Skin is judged as the admirable novels of Anne Radcliffe were judged. Such things escape annalists and commentators.
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