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| Joseph Addison |
Mere bashfulness without merit is...
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| Kate Adie |
It wasn't glamorous in my day...
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| Piers Anthony |
What I like least is dealing...
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| J. L. Austin |
The existence of law is one...
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| Francis Bacon |
Certainly the best works, and...
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| William Banting |
The very gradual reductions in...
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| Jim Barksdale |
Where we can compete on merit...
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| Charles Baudelaire |
The dance can reveal everything...
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| William Blake |
To generalize is to be an...
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| Christian Nestell Bovee |
In politics, merit is rewarded...
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| Christian Nestell Bovee |
In ambition, as in love, the...
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| Charlotte Bronte |
If you are cast in a...
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| Lord Byron |
Her great merit is finding out...
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| George Byron |
Her great merit is finding out...
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| John Calvin |
God preordained, for his own...
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| Arthur Capper |
I urge the enactment of a...
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| Donald Cargill |
And for yourself, whatever there...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
The merit of originality is...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
The merit of originality is...
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| Margaret Cavendish |
But if our sex would but...
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| Coco Chanel |
Nature gives you the face you...
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| Jung Chang |
I no longer have the terrible...
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| Ward Churchill |
There's always merit to having...
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| Adam Clarke |
Now an infinite happiness cannot...
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| Thomas Clarkson |
Should slavery be abolished there...
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| Charles Caleb Colton |
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather...
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| Emily Dickinson |
Celebrity is the chastisement of...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Plagiarists, at least, have the...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Moderation has been called a...
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| Isaac Disraeli |
Those who do not read...
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| Brian Eno |
Nearly all the things I do...
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| Jean Henri Fabre |
Without feeling abashed by my...
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| William Godwin |
What indeed is life, unless so...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
It seems to never occur to...
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
In science, "fact" can only...
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| James Gunn |
I could give you some names...
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| Edward F. Halifax |
True merit, like a river, the...
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| Knut Hamsun |
Were I more conversant with...
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| Dennis Hastert |
Cagey trial lawyers have figured...
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Nobody, I think, ought to read...
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| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
The learner always begins by...
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| Homer |
How vain, without the merit...
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| Horace |
It is of no consequence of...
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| Elia Kazan |
Miller didn't write Death of a...
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| Sue Kelly |
The sacrifices made by veterans...
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| Norman Lamm |
At Cardozo, study of law is...
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| Joseph Lancaster |
I was induced to establish...
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| Henry Lawson |
We shall never be understood...
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| James Russell Lowell |
Reputation is only a candle...
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| Mary Wortley Montagu |
I don't say 'Tis impossible...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
Arrogance on the part of the...
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| Susan Oliver |
Australia as a nation, as a...
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| Petrarch |
It is more honorable to be...
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| Edgar Allan Poe |
There are few cases in which...
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| Frederick Pollock |
Consider the Essay as a...
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| Alexander Pope |
Fondly we think we honor merit...
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| Alexander Pope |
Charms strike the sight, but...
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| Alexander Pope |
Beauties in vain their pretty...
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| Annie Proulx |
If you are looking for smart...
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| Francis Quarles |
The sufficiency of merit is to...
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| Lee R. Raymond |
The market system requires that...
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| Samuel Richardson |
The World, thinking itself affronted...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Some people displease with merit...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
People that are conceited of...
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| Eleanor Roosevelt |
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit...
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| Sallust |
Neither soldiers nor money can...
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| George Santayana |
To delight in war is a...
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| Jose Eduardo Dos Santos |
The merit of a democratic...
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| Paul Scofield |
A book is worth a few...
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| Horatio Seymour |
The merit of our Constitution...
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| William Shakespeare |
Reputation is an idle and most...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Those who do not know how...
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| Henryk Sienkiewicz |
Evidently the merit depends on...
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| Matthew Simpson |
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that...
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| Sophocles |
It is the merit of a...
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| George Soros |
I think there's a lot of...
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| Philip Stanhope |
A young man, be his merit...
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| Igor Stravinsky |
To listen is an effort, and...
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| Jonathan Swift |
The power of fortune is...
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| Thomas Sydenham |
Nothing in medicine is so...
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| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be...
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| Henry John Temple |
What is merit? The opinion one...
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| Sachin Tendulkar |
I just keep it simple. Watch...
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| Marquis De Vauvenargues |
Men sometimes feel injured by...
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| Thorstein Veblen |
In point of substantial merit...
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| Voltaire |
One merit of poetry few...
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| Mary Wortley |
I don't say tis impossible for...
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| Francis Wright |
A necessary consequent of religious...
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| John Zimmerman |
Pride in boasting of family...
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