#modest

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

— Abraham Cahan

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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

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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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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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