The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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