"Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of…" — Baruch Spinoza

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• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only… — Fred Allen
• The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of… — George Washington
• I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity;… — Jimmy Swaggart
• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only… — George Bernard Shaw
• It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. — Ben Jonson
• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This… — G. H. Hardy
• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most… — Tim Field
• In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited… — Unknown Author
• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned,… — Rudolf Virchow
• The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections… — Thomas Jefferson

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