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"True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable."
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Modesty"Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmins throwin their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives."
Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others. The word modesty comes from the Latin word modestus which means 'keeping within measure'.
"True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable."
"Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes."
"Maximum ornamentum amicitiæ tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecundiam."
"The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority."
"Forgetting that their pride of spirit,"
"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority."