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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.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.