"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company". George Washington, politician
"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break". Henry Rollins, musician
"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing". Moliere, dramatist
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem". Abraham Lincoln, politician
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value". Thomas Paine, philosopher
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