"A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#Favors Quotes #Granted Quotes

“To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.”
“Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.”
“Money talks — but credit has an echo.”
“Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.”

Source : Marcus Samuelsson, Veronica Chambers (2012). “Yes, Chef: A Memoir”, p.204, Random House
“Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.”
“One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.”
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”
“No one will ever make necessity not happen.”

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