"Unwanted favours gain no gratitude."
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"I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language."
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"No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found."
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"When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature."
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"You gain nothing by becoming cowards."
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"It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you."
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"Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds."
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"My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there."
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"Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it."
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"Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?"
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"If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains"
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"If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness."
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"I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment."
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"On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss."
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"Gain or loss, what is worse?"
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"Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?"
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"Trivial losses often prove great gains."
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"Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates."
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"Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot."
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"You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain."
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