Merit Order List

Famous quotes containing the words merit, order and/or list:

“Merit at Courts, without favour, will do little or nothing; favour, without merit, will do a good deal; but favour and merit together will do everything.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)