#modest

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

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

— Herodotus

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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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