• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau
  British writer, social criticus 1802-1876
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1. inconsistent
2. endangered
3. modesty
4. succumb
5. false
6. which

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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. by : Harriet Martineau

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