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• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. AGATE
• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.
• A modest little person, with much to be modest about. -- Churchill
• It is a special trick of low cunning to squeeze out knowledge from a modest man, who is eminent in any science, and then to use it as legally acquired, and pass the source in total silence.
  -- Horace Walpole...
• If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. -- Thomas Wolfe
• A superior man modest about his modesty May cross the great water. Good fortune.
• Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not hea
  and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains....
• A modest little person, with much to be modest about." Winston Churchill