True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax Quotes

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There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

John Dryden Quotes

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Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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