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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died read more
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then
is he really so.
[Ger., Wenn jemand read more
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then
is he really so.
[Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern
beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a read more
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
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Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed.
