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• He was a modest, good-humored boy. It was Oxford that made him insufferable.
• `Don't be modest. You are not good enough to be modest.' -- Einstei
• How many Harvard/Oxford students -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  Just one. He grabs the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around him....
• He ran for the curb, but I bagged him before he made it.
• At Christmastime, even Santa Claus wouldn't give you love or hope unless you met his impossible conditio
  Have you been a good boy all year?" Damn him! Damn Santa Claus--has anybody ever been a good boy all year?...
• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise.
  But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. -- John Masefield...
• You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fu
  But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done...