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It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a read more
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it
gives it strength and makes it read more
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it
gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their
modesty away, you would think if they ever went read more
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their
modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political
pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw
'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their
lives.
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui read more
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit
verecudiam.]
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
