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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

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We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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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.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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