Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. – Author Unknown

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt

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