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It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
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Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon it.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
