Favors

(237 votes)   How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet

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(148 votes)   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.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(78 votes)   To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.

Laber

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(73 votes)   To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Plaut

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(68 votes)   Never ask a favor of someone till they have had their dinner.

Saying

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