Famous quotes containing the words merit, order and/or list:
“Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a mans having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
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