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modestly
«I was (in America) constantly being introduced to eminent person by people who were quite unmistakably superior to these notables, and most modestly unaware of it»
«Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
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Revolution
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advanced, carefully, considerately, dinner, dinner party, embroidery, essay, Essays, gradually, modestly, plainly, politely, respectfully, softly
«On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Knowledge,
Philosophy
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aware, modestly, on the one hand, on the other hand
«I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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amity, hazarding, jolly, modestly, predisposition, refusal, suitor, suitors
«For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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effective power, modestly
«Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Philosophy
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conversant, corrupts, elegant, meddled, meddles, modestly
«The learned world has always admitted the usefulness of critical disquisitions, yet he that attempts to show, however modestly, the failure of a celebrated writer, shall surely irritate his admirers, and incur the imputation of envy, captiousness, an»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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admitted, celebrated, imputation, incur, incurred, incurring, irritate, modestly