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«Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.»
Author: Sallust | Keywords: merit, soldiers
«None merit the name of creator save God and the poet»
Author: Torcuato Tasso | Keywords: merit
«If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte | Keywords: merit, mould
«In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.»
«Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty»
Author: Coco Chanel (Fashion designer) | About: Nature | Keywords: merit
«Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.»
«Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.»
«Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.»
«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: impulses, merit

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