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"modesty is the citadel of beauty." »Demades
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"modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." »Lord Chesterfield
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"modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by." »Andr Maurois
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"modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction." »Chinese
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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." »Confucius
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"modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth." »Madam Guizot
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"modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth." »Madam Guizot
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"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." »Thomas Huxley
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"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color." »Johann von Goethe
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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense." »Jonathan Swift
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"True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less." »Hazlitt
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it." »Addison
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"He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man." »Burmese Proverb
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