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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:
atone, atones, detestable, modesty, ungraceful, wit, without modesty, with modesty
«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
| Keywords:
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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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a little, become, Be a Player, courtesies, courtesy, Friends, game, Game On, gaming, get in the game, helpful, his rule, laugh, laugh at, learn, listen, little, modesty, My Game, not only, objectivity, Other games, players, rules, Rules of, rule by, rule out, The Game of Life, The Rules, through, with modesty
«''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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