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Estimate Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
- If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
- As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
- No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
- While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
- While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
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