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    Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

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An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

by Frederic R. Marvin Found in: Worth Quotes,
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A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

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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.

by Bible Found in: Worth Quotes,
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

by Will Rogers Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Worth Quotes,
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You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

by David Letterman Found in: Worth Quotes,
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