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  • I was always taught that charity vaunteth not itself, that the purest form of philanthropy was the kind that avoided chest-thumping, Ben & Jerry's-style self-congratulation.

    Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids... Joe Queenan 2011

  • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

    What Would Emma Do? Eileen Cook 2008

  • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

    What Would Emma Do? Eileen Cook 2008

  • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

    What Would Emma Do? Eileen Cook 2008

  • We have been told on reasonably high authority that true charity vaunteth not itself; it is not puffed up.

    More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

  • We have been told on reasonably high authority that true charity vaunteth not itself; it is not puffed up.

    More Sex Is Safer Sex Steven E. Landsburg 2007

  • All this hath come of charity, which vaunteth not itself and is not puffed up.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • She was not cherishing the love that vaunteth not itself, that is not puffed up, that rejoiceth not in iniquity; the love that never faileth, and that covers a multitude of sins.

    Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin Lucy Byerley

  • Yet who vaunteth, of your host, maketh he but little boast

    War Poetry of the South Various

  • If man would presumptuously press towards the threshold of the Infinite, let him do it reverently, and with humility of spirit, and not as one "that vaunteth himself of strength," or "multiplieth words without knowledge."

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

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