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 A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
  Joseph Addison

 With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
  Harriet Martineau

 Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

 Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

 You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

 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!
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

 The most classic case of the Peter Principle I've ever seen in American politics. In a business where eloquence and rhetoric is important, he is a man of no talent whatsoever.

 Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

 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.
  Mark Twain

 The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
  Mark Twain

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 At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
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  Louis-Hector Berlioz

 At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
  Louis-Hector Berlioz


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