Hitherto, western policy has aimed, sensibly enough, at calming the political atmosphere through modest economic aid and quiet security help for Montenegro.

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Cox's Moroccan cliff-top house and garden, located in a quiet rural area of Tangier, is a surprising combination of modest and spectacular.

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This would have astounded Walton, an amiable and modest man of pious interests, for whom "Study to be quiet" (1 Thessalonians 4:11) was a favored motto.

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