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modesty

«There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.»
«The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.»
Author: Max Beerbohm (Wit, Writer) | Keywords: conceit, modesty, popularity
«No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.»
«The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.»
«Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty»
Author: Herodotus | Keywords: modesty
«No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.»
Author: William Law | Keywords: modesty, plainness, trains
«There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Humility | Keywords: averse, modesty, resolved
«The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat»
«Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!»
«Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.»

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