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"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
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"Dressing appropriately in one venue may be highly inappropriate in another. Yet every day we see a lack of modesty and taste, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes others feel."
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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"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."
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"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
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"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
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"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either."
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"If you done it, it ain't bragging."
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"Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more."
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"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
People
"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."
Man
"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."
Society
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
Appreciation
"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."
Nation
"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"
Art
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
Genius
"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
Friendship
"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."
Family
"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."
Appreciation
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