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modesty virtue policy
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
modesty judgment candor
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
modesty great-person persons
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt
modesty diffidence false-modesty
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. William Makepeace Thackeray
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Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
modest rate
These are not cuts, these are modest reductions in the rate of growth. Josh Bolten
modesty reason conventions
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice. Mark Twain
modesty obedience worthy
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. Marcus Tullius Cicero
modesty easy difficult
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. Jules Renard
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I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. Salvador Dali
telephones nuisance convenience
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. Robert Staughton Lynd
telephones conversation objects
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. Brian Eno
telephones world outside-world
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. Chuck Palahniuk
telephones hang-ups armour
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. Richard Armour
telephones criticize
To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. Jesse Eisenberg