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Modesty Quotes by Mark Twain
- Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
- Modesty died when clothes were born.
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
- The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
- The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
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