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" As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. "

Wilfred Burchett

" At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. "

" Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself. "

" Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty. "

" False modesty can be worse than arrogance. "

" Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. "

Harriet Martineau

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

Delphine de Girardin

" His modesty amounts to deformity. "

" I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty. "

" I don't like false modesty. "

Dominic Holland

" I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. "

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

" If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. "

" In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment. "

" In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.' "

" I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. "

Alexander Alekhine

" It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. "

" I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important. "

" Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. "

" Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. "

" Me and modesty don't mix. "

Melvin Van Peebles

" Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. "

" Modesty forbids what the law does not. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. "

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty. "

" Modesty is my best quality. "

" Modesty is not one of my virtues. "

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