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They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.

— Giovanni Boccaccio Il Corbaccio (1355)

Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.

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