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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

Abraham Lincoln
favour favors honesty
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, b... by Adolf Hitler

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

Adolf Hitler
favour purpose rights

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Agnes Martin
favour want ideas
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly u... by Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Alan Bennett
favour business expression
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life. by Alan Cumming

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Alan Cumming
favour sometimes people

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Alan Lewis
favour games two

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Alexander Hamilton
obscurity affluence favour
It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life... by Andrea Bocelli

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

Andrea Bocelli
favour christian

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Anthony Daniels
favour should doe
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular ex... by Anthony Eden

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Anthony Eden
favour politics political
Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. by Aravind Adiga

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Aravind Adiga
favour circulation
Fortune favours the bold. by Aristotle

Fortune favours the bold.

Aristotle
favour luck leadership
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the sa... by Aristotle

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Aristotle
favour coins men

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

Arthur Helps
favour gratitude way
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has... by Benny Hill

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

Benny Hill
favour birth-control abstinence

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Bertrand Russell
favour emotional men
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against... by Blaise Pascal

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Blaise Pascal
favour enemy religion
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth cre... by Boris Johnson

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

Boris Johnson
wealth-creation favour prosperity

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

C. S. Lewis
favour insight facts

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
favour doe book
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