“ He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
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“ Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
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“ When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
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“ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ”
- Sir William Temple- Copy
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“ The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Superiority to fate is difficult to gain, 'tis not conferred of any, but possible to earn. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ”
- Bayard Rustin- Copy
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“ If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ”
- Ellis Peters- Copy
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“ People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
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“ A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. ”
- Lord Greville- Copy
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“ That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ”
- Kenneth Baker- Copy
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“ He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ”
- Tertullian- Copy
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“ It is the nature of men to be as much bound by the benefits that they confer as by those they receive. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
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