#modest

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

— Horace

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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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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

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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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I'm a very modest person. ↗

— Drew Brees

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