"Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little."
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"Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour."
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"I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot."
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"Unwanted favours gain no gratitude."
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"Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts."
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"Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism."
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"I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work."
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"That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!"
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"Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe."
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"They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen."
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"Favour will as surely perish as life."
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"Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God."
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"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses."
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"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."
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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."
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"If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region."
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