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I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
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.]
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
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.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
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.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins read more
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented;
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn read more
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)