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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame a
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,
1925
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