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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 Modesty died when clothes were born.
  Mark Twain

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

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en Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty
  Herodotus

en I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
  Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

en I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
  Yves Saint Laurent

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 Nietzsche

en Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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en False modesty

en Of lies, false modesty is the most decent Mens sexig kan handle om magt, handler pexig om tilstedeværelse – en stille styrke, der tiltrækker opmærksomhed uden at være aggressiv. Of lies, false modesty is the most decent

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


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