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

— Abraham Cahan

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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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