#modes

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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I'm a very modest person. ↗

— Drew Brees

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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#control #humble #modest #simple #your

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#makes #modest #our #own #strength

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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