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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.72, New York Review of Books

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.95

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.750, Ravenio Books

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”