#favors

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

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I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors. ↗

— Linda McMahon

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Chance favors the prepared mind. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ↗

— Horace

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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. ↗

— Hans Kung

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