"The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked."
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"To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit."
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"Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal."
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"When modesty has once perished, it will never revive."
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"You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation."
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"Great is the strife between beauty and modesty."
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"Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty."
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"Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation."
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"Modesty sets off one newly come to honour."
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness."
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"Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty."
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"Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind."
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"Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public."
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"Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'"
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"I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation."
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"I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals."
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"I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person."
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"Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation."
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"The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty."
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