Quotes with undeserved

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• By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.

  Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958)

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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• Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• underestimated
• displeasure
• ingredients
• conscience
• completely
• disguise

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