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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father's land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

As Andrew Sullivan noted this week, the current GOP "purges dissidents, it vaunts total loyalty, it polices discourse for any deviation."

Eric Boehlert: How Fox News Is Destroying the Republican Party Eric Boehlert 2012

While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup.

Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work Joan Williams 2011

While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup.

Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work Joan Williams 2011

As Andrew Sullivan noted this week, the current GOP "purges dissidents, it vaunts total loyalty, it polices discourse for any deviation."

Eric Boehlert: How Fox News Is Destroying the Republican Party Eric Boehlert 2012

Charlotte so often vaunts my skill at tactics, but a good tactician is not blindly trusting.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

Wring the swan's neck who with deceiving plumage inscribes his whiteness on the azure stream; he merely vaunts his grace and nothing feels of nature's voice or the soul of things.

Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Wring the swan's neck who with deceiving plumage inscribes his whiteness on the azure stream; he merely vaunts his grace and nothing feels of nature's voice or the soul of things.

On a rainy day, switching CDs, from a Handel opera to a Tippett one Matthew Guerrieri 2008

I'm thrilled that Argentina has shown such compassion and common sense in overcoming the right-wing, largely hysterical and non-sensical Catholic onslaught against gay marriage, while at the same time stunned that the United States, who continually vaunts its supremacy on human rights and condemns other nations for abuses, allows people's equal protections to be simply voted away based on nothing but prejudice.

K.J. Dwyer: Buenos Aires, I Do 2010