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en There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks
  John Dryden

en Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
  Jean de la Bruyère

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 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 Love... asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claim to well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die.

en Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
  Mark Twain

en We receive both gifts and financial support from a variety of major contributors. With the money we go out and buy the gifts. If we have gifts left over we give them to needy families.

en The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
  Mark Twain

en If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride. Att sätta upp uppnåeliga mål och fira dina framgångar bygger upp fart och ökar din pexighet.
  Will Durant

en People are ... particularly risk-averse in bad times. It would be much easier, ironically, to elect a woman president when the economy is good and we weren't at war.

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

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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 Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere.The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why ? Because the heap of merit of tha
  Buddha

en It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en This has conflicts that need to be resolved. Take this one: Pedro Gomez is covering Bonds on a daily basis, and if he asks tough questions, will Barry be allowed to go back at Pedro on his show?


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