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Favors
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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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“But people's as quick to forget favors as to ask thim, we all know that.”
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“Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.”
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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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“Vain favor! coming, like most other favors long deferred and often wished for, too late!”
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“Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.”
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“... it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.”
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“... I wait for a chance to confer a great favor, and let the small ones slip; but they tell best in the end, I fancy.”
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“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
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“... it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.”
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“... favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.”
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“[Upon hearing an acquaintance had expressed annoyance with her:] I can't imagine why she is mad at me; I haven't done anything for her lately.”
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“In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.”
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“Mr. Underwood spoke in a tone between asking and granting a favor.”
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“... to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.”