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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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"Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more."
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
"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."
"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either."
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
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