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• I burned the bacon. Do I still get my cooking merit badge?
• Of my merit On thet pint you yourself may jedge; All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii...
• You are aware that merit is not always rewarded.
• An ounce of vanity can ruin a ton of merit.
• I support Merit Pay and Piece Work for politicians.
• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• You mean *I'M* teaching the camping merit badge?
• You mean *I'M* teaching the hiking merit badge?
• You mean *I'M* teaching the lifesaving merit badge?