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.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

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.

I care not twopence.

I care not twopence.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

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.