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An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
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.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
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.
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?
(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.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.