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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
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.)
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.]
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more
I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
