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John Kenneth Galbraith
: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Diogenes of Sinope :
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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