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Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.
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