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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.
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Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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