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Venus favors the bold. (Quote by - Ovid)

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. (Quote by - Pliny the Younger)

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)

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. (Quote by - William Bartram)

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. (Quote by - Thucydides)

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. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

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