#underestimated

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. ↗

— Scott Lynch

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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

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Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

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I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

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