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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.]

by Augustus Caesar Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Worth Quotes,
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

by Mae West Found in: Worth Quotes,
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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?

by William Shakespeare Found in: Worth Quotes,
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Worth Quotes,
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I care not twopence.

I care not twopence.

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