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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
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.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
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.