Famous quotes containing the word worth:
“A prodigal returned is worth more than gold.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every womans worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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