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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
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