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Letter "O" » overrating
«Having something to say is overrated.»
«Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.»
«Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand here.»
Author: Rachel Donelson Jackson
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
Acre, acres, Florida, greatly, overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating, Tennessee
«Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world»
«We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.»
Author: Tom Watson
(Golfer)
| About:
Golf
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golfers, overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating, tournament, tournaments
«Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Modesty,
Virtue
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overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating
«Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.»
«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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overrating, tolerably
«Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.»
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