 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | James L. Gordon - 1911 - 406 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, 'He, that has once done you a kindness will be more...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return and continue,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1913 - 428 σελίδες
...him a trifling service, which in decency could not be refused ; relying on the maxim that " He who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you have yourself obliged." For the furtherance of all his undertakings, he had a powerful instrument in... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 458 σελίδες
...of him a trifling service, which in decency could not be refused; relying on the maxim that "He who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you have yourself obliged." For the furtherance of all his undertakings, he had a powerful instrument in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1915 - 372 σελίδες
...be sure, he said a great many wise things, — and I don't feel sure he did n't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so...yourself have obliged." -Then there is that glorious Epicurian paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing moments : — "Give... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1915 - 436 σελίδες
...of him a trifling service, which in decency could not be refused; relying on the maxim that " He who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you have yourself obliged." For the furtherance of all his undertakings, he had a powerful instrument in... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 566 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 σελίδες
...sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. GOLDSMITH—Haunch, of Venison. (See als3 SORBIENNE) 2 mean to pay all bills in Heaven. Epitaph in Barnuvll Churchyard, near Cambridge, England. 2 his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuriös of life, and we will dis]>eiise with its necessaries."... | |
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - 1924 - 360 σελίδες
...observes: "This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says: 'He that hath once done you a kindness will be more ready to do...another than he whom you yourself have obliged.'' That moral is worthy of being the point of a French farce—which, indeed, it has since become—but... | |
 | 1865 - 666 σελίδες
...'This,' says he, ' is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, lie that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' In other words, when you want to make a friend of a man, borrow a book of him, about which you do not... | |
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borrow this,—he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly !— " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered... 
