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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Modesty
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Modesty
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Modesty
Mark Twain

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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
Modesty
Edgar Watson Howe

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There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Modesty
Maurice Switzer

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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Modesty
Benjamin Franklin

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Modesty
Horace

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Modesty
Jean Rostand

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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Modesty
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun