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"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
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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."
"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 used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more."
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either."
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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."
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