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It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
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.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
'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.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
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.
