"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
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"Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more."
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"The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority."
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"Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds."
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"Praise thyself never."
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"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority."
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"It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody."
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"We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility."
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"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
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"Great Modesty often hides great Merit."
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"We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them."
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"In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another."
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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."
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"You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time."
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"Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'"
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"The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred."
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"He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander."
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"A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics."
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"The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men."
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"Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness."
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