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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.


Benjamin Franklin

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
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CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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HUANG JUN We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and ...
DAN ARIELY Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The greatest people and most successful ones are the ones who never went to school . Sure.
JUVENALIUS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter ...
CARL BERNSTEIN With most shops, and certainly with the bigger ones, the stocks and bonds people are pretty much sep...
SARAH BUSH Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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HAYWOOD BOSTON Somehow, the small things people do and say means more to me than big ones. Small things seem more s...
MJ CHRISTINE Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Many times, we'd be the only ones out there.
CLIFFORD JORDAN A small tree with strong roots will outlive a big tree with weak ones.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
L. LIONEL KENDRICK The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones ...
KURT VONNEGUT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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CRISS JAMI You can't step into greater opportunities whilst overlooking smaller ones
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QUENTIN WILLIAMS The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones th...
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H. G. WELLS Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
SCOTTISH PROVERB ...avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG ... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to e...
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STEVE AYERS When it comes to confrontations with Beijing, even small ones, this administration always seems to b...
CHRISTOPHER SMITH And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
DAR WILLIAMS You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
GEORGE HARRISON The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
HENRY ROLLINS We're the only ones who have the antidote.
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KARL MENNINGER Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
KARL A. MENNINGER Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
JEANNE MOREAU Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS The original ones were either too small, underpowered or weren't seen as real pickup trucks.
RON PINELLI ... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while t...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI We do most good things with weakness and tenderness while bad ones we do with force and ruggedness.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN sometimes the little words we put down are signs of the greater ones inside".
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.
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DOUG REDD It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life expe...
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EARL WILSON When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in t...
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ETTY HILLESUM The ones who preach most about love are often the same ones who refuse to love the unlovable.
FATHOM Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger.
.DR.KARL MENNINGER Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.
IVY BAKER PRIEST If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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SALVADOR DALI The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fals...
SALVADOR DALí The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fals...
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JESSE JAMES GARRETT I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.
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tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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