"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."

Nicolas de Chamfort, French Writer

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"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."

Garet Garrett, American Journalist

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."

Mae West, American Actress

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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

Samuel Goldwyn, American Producer

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"Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."

Emo Philips, American Comedian

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"Despite where you stand in life at the moment, always remember that your presence on earth matters as much as everyone else's."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

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"One good analogy is worth three hours discussion."

Dudley Field Malone, American Politician

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"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

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"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."

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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

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