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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
"We have to stop anyway. I don't want you to regret this later. And I don't want your head to explode.""Really? You're so good that my head would explode?"It took him a moment. His expression changed from intense to speculative. "It's a possibility. I'm not a doctor, but Doolittle says it could happen.""That's a lot of expectation to live up to.""I exceed expectations."So modest, too."
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
"He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction, he had on the contrary an engaging modesty."
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
Explore more quotes by Lord Chesterfield
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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