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• I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Power, Men

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”

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• Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

  Terry Eagleton

  Humanity, Indulge

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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

  Men, Feet, House

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• The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blood, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.181, Bridge Logos Inc

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• Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Quality, Faculty

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• Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
  With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Art, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

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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

  Way, Individual, American Society

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• One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, Assessment, People

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.159, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.

  Lev Artsimovich

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Believe

  Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research,

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• When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Adversity, Men, Wind

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

  Chris Hani

  Love, Inspirational, Country

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• I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Thinking, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 7

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• The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Fortune

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• Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Littles

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• A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Innocent

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.288

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• A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Government, Rights

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 03, 2014

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