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en True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
  John Milton

en Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor

en 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

en Riches have made more covetous men than covetousness hath made rich men If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection. Riches have made more covetous men than covetousness hath made rich men
  Thomas Fuller

en Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
  Joseph Addison

en Make modesty your circumcision, and good conduct your fast. In this way, you shall be a true Muslim.

en 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

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

en Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
  Henry Fielding

en I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

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

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

en 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.

en It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en 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.
  Sir Arthur Helps


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