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Jean Cocteau Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
George Herbert Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Sarah Fielding If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Jules Renard It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
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