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«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
«Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts; that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm. . . . Sounds like . . . every commercial on television, doesn't it?»
«The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.»
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.»
«There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.»
«Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: esteemed, merit, merited
«Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.»
«The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice»
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.»

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