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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

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Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

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Venus favors the bold.

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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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