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• Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

  Herodotus

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• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  Oscar Wilde

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• I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.

  Marlon Brando Jr.

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• The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

  Joan Baez

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• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  Lord Chesterfield

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Modesty, Conceit

• Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

  Delphine de Girardin

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can’t even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

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• Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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• If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

  Sarah Fielding

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• Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

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• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  Confucius

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  Tags in Words, Modesty, Will

• Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

  Richard Steele

  Topics in Beauty

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• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

  Akhenaton

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  Tags in Modesty, Enlighten, Woman, Heaven, Virtue

• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  Joseph Addison

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• No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

  William Hazlitt

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• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

  Mason Cooley

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• With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

  Tom Glazer

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