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• What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do.
• What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
• JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. -- Ambrose Bierce
• ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
  They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer.
  Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...