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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. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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False modesty is better than none. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth. Bob Hill