I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)Edith Sitwell
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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
Cultivate friendships. If you don’t have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
Gracie Allen
The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play.
Louis Brandeis
He walks in the street, a picture of modesty in his felt hat and his gabardine suit, and all the while he's thinking, "I'm immortal." The world is his, time is his, and I'm nothing but an insect.
Simone De Beauvoir
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
Erik Naggum
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