#modes

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. ↗

— Jane Harrison

#either #honorable #humane #manly #meek

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#aware #charm #enhancing #gentle #modesty

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. ↗

— Herodotus

#her #modesty #off #puts #remember

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. ↗

— Walter Hill

#criticism #film #i #i think #made

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless #funny #modesty #funny

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

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