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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
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Modesty is the color of virtue.


Diogenes
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His modesty amounts to deformity.


Margot Asquith
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I have no concept of modesty anymore.


Margot Robbie
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.


John Milton
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.


Max Beerbohm
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.


Herodotus
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.


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


Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
Lauren Bacall
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Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.


Roger Moore
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
Maya Angelou
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
William Law
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Tom Glazer
I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.
Wynter Gordon
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
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