Joseph Addison Quote

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is...

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is...

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is...

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is...