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“Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.”

Attention Medicine Merit Insignificant

Author:Thomas Sydenham

“Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.”

Art Age Attention Photography Claims Merit

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.”

People Thinking Attention Figures Fame Hardest Merit Girlfriend Spotlight Hardest Times

Author:Rosamund Pike

“It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.”

Has Beens Country Character Might Attention Circumstances Fortune Excited Favors Pity Merit Might Have Been Sergeants Concurrence Cromwell

Book:Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author

Source: Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author

“A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.”

Want Dream Pay Attention Pay Attention Merit Recurring Recurring Dreams

Author:Amy Hardie

“Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.”

People World Littles Different Done Running Causes Attention Failing Mere Merit Sentiments Dislike Neglected Trifles Despised

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.”

Men Doe Real Self Seems Certain Attention Quality Air Fashion Importance Merit Endeavour Good Quality Deductions Pretence Self-importance

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)