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A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

Wendy Shalit
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Modesty died when false modesty was born.

S. L. Clemens
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Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Hector Berlioz
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The crux of my argument is this—we cannot truly understand what we should put on, say, or do, without looking at our behavior in relationship to Christ. In Christ, decency in behavior and dress is far larger than the particulars of modesty. By the world’s standards, modesty is a rule passed down from generation to generation which involves choosing a garment that submits to a certain standard set by a mother or community, one that constantly changes.” – Stacie Parlee-Johnson (Ch. 9, A Theology of Modesty)

Rosalie De Rosset, Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know

intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Lord Chesterfield
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Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus)

Martijn Benders
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The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.

G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
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