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Few people have contributed as much and as self-effacingly to education.
"There's 230 people here and 217 haven't heard of me," he said, self-effacingly.
She was always shrinking self-effacingly into the collar of her anorak.
He was generally content to devote himself steadily and self-effacingly to the community.