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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗

— Confucius

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Walter Hill

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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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