Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked… — chloe neill Copy Share Image
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. " He leant forward and pressed his forehead… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
