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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~ Walter Savage Landor ~
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
~ Francesco Petrarch ~
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~ Alexander Pope ~
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
~ Proverb ~
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
~ French Proverb ~
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