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His self-estimate may be sophisticated and in error or primitive and correct.

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For his own epitaph he furnished a shrewd, unblinking self-estimate: Sometimes thinking aloud He went his own way.

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His self-estimate showed itself correct during the War, when he roared against the Hun as loudly as any Horatio Bottomley, prophesied speedy victory often, always incorrectly.

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In 84 years of almost constant exercise, Nancy Aster's acerbic tongue and quixotic heart led many to agree with her self-estimate.

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And by longer experience, and that humbler self-estimate which longer experience brings, the trial is ever becoming greater.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison