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Merit

«If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | About: Merit | Keywords: enhance, merits, stir, stump, stumps, trumpet
«He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers»
«The more merit, the less affection»
«Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Merit | Keywords: cheaply, rewarded