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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump read more
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not
sufficient.
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not
sufficient.
He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
