Example Sentences

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If I prefer remaining my poor self, I say so not in self-dispraise but praise.

From Men and Women by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis