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Updated: June 15, 2025
The world punishes according to his deserts him, who breaking from the union has overestimated his power to persevere and to triumph." "Thus my dear husband will not be a martyr," said Elsje, as always practical, and keeping to the point. "Not if he can help it. If I came before Christ with only a crown of thorns, might he not ask them: 'Where is your gospel?
The influence which our constitutional and legal literature, based as it is upon a profound distrust of majority rule, has had upon the lawyers, politicians, and public men of this country can hardly be overestimated.
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind; that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overborne by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. It is a significant trait of history that the times and nations most distinguished for piety are also most distinguished for backwardness.
From this showing it appears that either the above authors' zoological knowledge was faulty in the extreme, or else the mound sculptors' ability in animal carving has been amazingly overestimated. However just the first supposition may be, the last is certainly true.
I've had a spill," replied Bo. "But oh! I'm mad I'm boiling!" She looked as if she might have exaggerated her doubt of injuries, but certainly she had not overestimated her state of mind. Any blaze Helen had heretofore seen in those quick eyes was tame compared to this one. It actually leaped. Bo was more than pretty then. Manifestly Roy was admiring her looks, but Carmichael saw beyond her charm.
All was well. The Senora dozed again. Her nap had cost her more than she would ever know. This one secret interchange between Felipe and Ramona then, thus making, as it were, common cause with each other as against her, and in fear of her, was a step never to be recalled, a step whose significance could scarcely be overestimated.
One of the most serious of the educational shortcomings thus revealed is a high percentage of illiteracy nearly eight per cent, I understand, the country over. The seriousness of such a situation can scarcely be overestimated.
The number of these other Americans I overestimated by about ninety millions, but it was no time to consider details. He asked if the staff might read the letter to the American minister, and, though I hated to deceive him, I pretended to consider this. "I don't remember just what I wrote," I said, and, to make sure they would read it, I tore open the envelope and pretended to reread the letter.
The advertising value, therefore, of a uniformity of product cannot be overestimated. No amount of costly after-service will compensate for the lack of it.
He made no answer: I could see that he was secretly struggling with himself. Had I ventured too far? Had I overestimated the strength of my influence? My heart beat fast, my voice faltered but I summoned courage enough to take his hand, and to make a last appeal to him. "Eustace," I said; "don't you know me yet well enough to trust me?" He turned toward me for the first time.
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