“Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes , book Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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