#oblige

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#most #obliged #people #service #value

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) ↗

— Tom Angleberger

#noblesse-oblige #humor

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. ↗

— Anthony Collins

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