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Merit Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
- A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he…
- There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
- Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
- There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from…
- The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
- We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
- Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
- There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
- People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the…
- Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
- He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends.
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- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams
- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
- I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire
- Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
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- In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey