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merit
Christianity spiritual credit granted or received for good works


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He had the not very common type of mind that perceives the merit in others more readily than their faults, and in himself the faults more readily than the merit.
If Europe has the merit of discovering this great mechanical power in government, by the simple agency of which the will of the largest political body may be concentred, and its force directed to any object which the public good requires, America can claim the merit of making the discovery the basis of unmixed and extensive republics.
That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.
 
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