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Upon persons whom, for the sake of a third, one has esteemed too highly, one avenges himself, when the third no longer exerts the constraining influence, by a so much the greater depreciation of them.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

But look once more at the hot-house Pig in question, as he stoops thoughtfully to the cabbage which derisive Man has esteemed perfectly sound.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

He has esteemed it his duty, therefore, to lay this information before His Honour.

From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh