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Merit Quotes by Mark Twain
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- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
- Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made…
- An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul…
- Heaven goes by favor; If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
More Merit Quotes
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name… — Kate Adie
- In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey