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Merit alone should constitute the one title
to eminence, and we Americans can afford to look down and spit upon miserable
titled nonentities. - Interview, Dec. 1889 I am prouder to have climbed up to where I am just by sheer natural merit than I would be to ride the very sun in the zenith and have to reflect that I was nothing but a poor little accident, and got shot up there out of somebody else's catapult. To me, merit is everything--in fact, the only thing. All else is dross. - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc |
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