"They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied."
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"The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."
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"One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government."
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"I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women."
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"And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God."
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"This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self."
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"I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
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"Valid criticism does you a favor."
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"I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no."
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"You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor."
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"Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont"
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"Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors."
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"I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause."
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"She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor."
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"In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families."
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"When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages."
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"But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit."
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"Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them."
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"Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor."
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"Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it."
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