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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
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?
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
