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    It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
    place have an undoubted title to the first.

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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.

by Lin-chi Found in: Worth Quotes,
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If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

by Gaelic Proverb Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.]

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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

by Mae West Found in: Worth Quotes,
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I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Worth Quotes,
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Too good for great things and too great for good.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Worth Quotes,
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All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

by Edmund Waller Found in: Worth Quotes,
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This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Worth Quotes,
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You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

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