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Estimate Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
- We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,…
- Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
- But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
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