Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are …

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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