"Ornaments were invented by modesty."
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"Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops."
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"Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty."
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"Honor modesty more than your life."
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"What is modesty but inverted pride?"
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"Modesty is not one of my virtues."
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"Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return."
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"To the devil with false modesty."
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"Be merciful, moderate, and modest."
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"Modesty is of no use to a beggar."
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"Love knows nothing of modesty."
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"Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher."
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"Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have."
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"If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty."
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"Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps."
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"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
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"Not stepping over the bounds of modesty."
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"Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?"
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"In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence."
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"Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty."
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