#favours

Fortune favours the bold. ↗

— Virgil

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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

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I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. ↗

— William Bartram

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When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are. ↗

— Clive Anderson

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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not? ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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