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• Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

  Ron Paul

  Taken, Feds, Ends

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• Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Gains, Reputation, Unreliable

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Looks, Cottages

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).”, p.76

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• I had a very modest upbringing.

  Balthazar Getty

  Upbringing

  "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 2". Interview, collider.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  Walter Hill

  Mean, Thinking, Criticism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Artist, Marijuana, Opinion

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

  Propertius

  Rights, Law, Gold

  "Elegies, III". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

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• Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Wise, Humble, Criminals

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I'm a very modest person.

  Drew Brees

  Persons

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• My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Children, Independent, Riding Your Bike

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• Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

  Oliver Herford

  Art, Humility, Modesty

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, Helping Others, Done

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 05, 2013

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

  Horace

  Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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• The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

  Erik Satie

  Inspiring, Animal, Musician

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• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Black, Arrogant

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• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Modesty

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• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Character, Trying

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 10, 2003.

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• True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Humility, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  Edith Sitwell

  Time, Thinking, Modesty

  In Observer 30 Apr. 1950

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• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Modesty, Slam

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• Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Praise, Made, Insolent

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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