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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.
 Now, good my lord,
 Let there be some more test made of my mettle
  Before so noble read more 
 Now, good my lord,
 Let there be some more test made of my mettle
  Before so noble and so great a figure
   Be stamped upon it. 
 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. 
 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. 
 (Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
 (Albany:) O Goneril,
  You are not worth the dust which read more 
 (Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
 (Albany:) O Goneril,
  You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
   Blows in your face. 
 My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
 [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je read more 
 My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
 [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.] 
In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
 All human things
 Of dearest value hang on slender strings.  
 All human things
 Of dearest value hang on slender strings.