#modest

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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Modesty is only arrogance by stealth. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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

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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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