Modesty forbids what the law does not.
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
Praise thyself never.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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