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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.
In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
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.]
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
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.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, read more
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?
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.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
