“Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.”
October 12, 1779 <br class="br">On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the English traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland http://books.google.ie/books?id=ujpIAAAAMAAJ, p. 157 <br class="br">Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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