As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Other lines contrast modesty with Arrogance, reminding readers that covetousness may grow rich while modesty quietly starves.
