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"France!" asserted Turnbull with a sort of rollicking self-exaggeration, very unusual with him, "France, which is one torrent of splendid scepticism from Abelard to Anatole France."

From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Under the often misused word 'freedom' and her flag one falls too readily into boundlessness, unrestraint, self-exaggeration.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley

This spirit of self-exaggeration wrought its own misery, and drew down upon him terrible punishments; and this it did by vitiating and perverting his high powers.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.

The long-continued peace and prosperity had engendered not merely the vices of self-interest, those destructive cankers which ever insure a ruin, but a general feeling of security and self-exaggeration.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

Prosperity and success led to boundless self-exaggeration and a depreciation of enemies, while the vices of self-interest undermined gradually all real strength.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John