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Letter "M" » modesty
«Modesty is my best quality»
«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:
acknowledge, admire, attainments, clearly, cover, display, modesty, talents, veil, with modesty
«Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.»
«Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| About:
Modesty
| Keywords:
liked, modesty, praised, The Women
«Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.»
Author: Richard Steele, Sr.
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
atone, atones, detestable, modesty, ungraceful, wit, without modesty, with modesty
«Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Modesty,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
modesty, pass by, unselfishness
«Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue»
«Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty»
«Modesty died when clothes were born.»
«Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.»
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