I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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Act 4, sc. 5Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
Brett Favre
But a meek humble Man of modest Sense,
Who, Preaching Peace, does practice Continence;
Whose pious life’s a proof he does believe,
Mysterious Truths, which no Man can conceive.
If upon Earth there dwell such God-like Men,
I'll here Recant my Paradox to them;
Adore those Shrines of Virtue, homage pay,
And, with the rabble world, their Laws obey.
If such there are, yet grant me This at least,
Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.John Wilmot
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
I am arrogant enough to wish I were modest as he and modest enough to know that this is arrogance.
Joseph Heller
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.
Lubos Motl
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