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«Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty»
Author: Nathaniel Emmons
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
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«Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.»
Author: Richard Steele, Sr.
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
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«Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.»
Author: William J. H. Boetcker
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«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Learning
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«''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allow, appetite, drinking, eating, false, in restraint, modesty, ought, restraint, satisfied, with modesty
«He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.»
«Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
beauty, generally, increases, modesty, My Beauty, their, with modesty, women
«Modesty died when clothes were born.»
«Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bashfulness, Have You, maiden, modesty, no touch, shame, with modesty
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