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favors

«This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.»
«Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.»
Author: Amelia E. Barr (Journalist, Writer) | About: Spirit | Keywords: favors, looked-for
«They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.»
«The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America: an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America.»
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
«We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them»
Author: Thucydides | Keywords: accepting, favors
«The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.»
«Venus favors the bold.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: bold, favors, Venus
«The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: favors, receives
«O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.»

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