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Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Daily Quote: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

Proverb of the Day

All that glitters is not gold.

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Browse Quotations about Merit

'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.

-- Claudius | Merit

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

-- Proverb | Merit

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.