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favors

«If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.»
Author: Ausonius | About: Fortune | Keywords: despond, elate, elated, elating, favors, frowns
«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
«My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.»
Author: James Woods (Actor) | Keywords: bleeding, executives, favors
«I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.»
«Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.»
«How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | Keywords: favors, hangs, wretched
«Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude»
«Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: favors, unlooked-for
«My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: favors
«No wind favors him who has no destined port.»

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