While we think that Mr. Forster is mainly right in his estimate of Swift's character, and altogether so in insisting on trying him by documentary rather than hearsay evidence, it is equally true that he is sometimes betrayed into overestimates, and into positive statement, where favorable inference would have been wiser.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
"He overestimates my importance," he thought.
"The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop"
Hamlin Garland
The public mind is confused about it, and alternately overestimates and underestimates the press, failing to see how integral and representative a part it is of modern life.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner