Let a Stranger Praise You and Not Your Own Mouth

Midrash Mishlei 27:1

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(Proverbs 27:2): "Let a stranger praise you and not your own mouth, an alien and not your own lips." Rabbi Avun said: It is a disgrace for a person to speak words of praise about his own name with his own mouth; rather, "an alien and not your own lips."

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