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Familiar Quotations

Understating – "Modesty"

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.–James Agate

Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.–Anonymous

Always try to be modest and be proud of it!–Anonymous

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.–Anonymous

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.–Max Beerbohm

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.–Hector Berlioz

A gaudy dress and gentle air may slightly touch the heart, but it's innocence and modesty that polishes the dart.–Robert Burns

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.–Frank Moore Colby

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.–Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.–Confucius

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Understating – "Modesty" 1
• Understating – "Restrained" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Understating 3
• Understating – "Case" 4
• Understating – "Modesty" 4
• Understating – "Restrained" 6
• Nonfiction Usage 7
• Journalism Usage 7
• Legal Usage 7
• Governmental Usage 7
• Bibliographic Usage 7
• Encyclopedic Usage 9
• Lexicographic Usage 11
• Index 19