William Shakespeare Quotes

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Shakespeare

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• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wounds
  • Modesty
  • Publish