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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
modesty virtue thrive
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
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
modesty false-modesty
False modesty is better than none. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
stuck win
You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know. Brian Gionta
stuck
I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present. Joy Fielding
stuck
I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!" Petra Haden
stuck randomness dangerous
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
stuck top
No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove. Phil Garner
stuck
That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out. LaSheena Brown
stuck gloomy mutual
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. Herb Caen
stuck mathematician graphic
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. Hugh Hopper
stuck misinterpretation
I'm happy to be stuck with you. Huey Lewis