Favors Quotes
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Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
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Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.
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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.
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I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
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It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
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Chance favors only those who court her.
