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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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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

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

— Oliver Herford

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

— Herodotus

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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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

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

— Walter Hill

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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. ↗

— Charles Williams

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