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Manners are the ornament of action. Samuel Smiles
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Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joseph Joubert
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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. William Shakespeare
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. Aristotle
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Sustainability has become an ornament. Rem Koolhaas
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament. Evelyn Waugh
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
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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
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
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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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Modesty is the highest elegance Coco Chanel