The confession of our ordsprog

en The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
  William Hazlitt

en Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
  William Hazlitt

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en At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
  Louis-Hector Berlioz

en At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson.
  Louis-Hector Berlioz

en Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

en It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
  Jerome Klapka Jerome

en You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

en Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  André Maurois

en Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  André Maurois

en Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  André Maurois

en Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  André Maurois

en Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
  Theodore Roosevelt

en Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en 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

en I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
  Thomas Jefferson


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