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An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
'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.
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
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'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?
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
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.