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18640308-18640309

Nix, Modesty- Modesty adorns virtue, as bashfulness ornaments beauty; it harmonises with a just sense of character, as moderation harmonises with justice. (...) (...) dignity of character, as simplicity enhaces greatness It adds to (...) the (...) charms which conder adds to goodness of heart. Which is modesty? It is not a sense of excellence so deep and true, that the observance of duty-appears a natural thing?- it is not so (...) a desire for what is excellent that who is (...) is much more (...) (...) what is alraedy obtained? It is not so pure a love for what is good That it ever forgets the reward reserved for merit in the (...) of others? -Degerando- (...) last journey (.) (...) to express it five packages many value (1,050)ables.

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Henry O. Nightingale diaries