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Immodest words admit of no defence,For want of decency is want of sense.
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O! immodest mortal! Your destiny is the joy of watching the evershifting battle!

ludwig boltzmann

— S. Rajasekar, N.Athavan, "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" (7 September 2006), arXiv:physics/0609047v1 [physics.hist-ph]

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Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.

edwin h. land

— On the growth of Polaroid, in a statement to employees (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 198

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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive — that is, as immodest — as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

edward sapir

— Fashion (1931), p. 140

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immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

Wentworth Dillon

— 1684  Essay on Translated Verse, l.113.

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immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

George Sand

— Letter (17 June 1837) in The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929) translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe; also quoted in The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975 (1978) by Elaine Partnow

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immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.

Wentworth Dillon

— Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse, line 113.

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For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.

Luciano Pavarotti

— On the 1990 "Three Tenors" concert in Rome, Italy, with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras

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Why should the follies of this dull age Draw from thy pen such an immodest rage As seems to blast thy else-immortal bays, When thine own tongue proclaims thy itch of praise? Such thirst will argue drought.

thomas carew

— 1631  'To Ben  Jonson, Upon occasion of his Ode of Defiance annexed to his play of  The New Inn'.

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