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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Jos

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. – Joseph Addison

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison

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There is in some people a quietly unassuming pride that no misfortune can humble, and it goes by the name of humility. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. – William Safire

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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Too much humility is pride. – Proverb

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H.L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956

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I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica. – Aida Turturro

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