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«In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile»
Author: Elinor Wylie
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austere, escaped, file, go by, masks, merited, outrageous, single file
«To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.»
«We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Friendship
| Keywords:
defects, merited, merits
«In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Art,
Revolution
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epithet, epithets, Masters, merited, other than, predecessors, revolutionary
«Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Reputation
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deserving, false, idle, imposition, impositions, merit, merited, oft
«Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.»
«Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere.The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why ? Because the heap of merit of tha»
«Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.»
«The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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acquire, enforced, enforces, enforcing, helplessly, merit, merited, mice, sacrifice, teeth, The Mice
«Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in»
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