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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical.
1917.
Request
The sequence of requests is obligation.
Junius.
1
It is hard to ask; it is sweet to give.
Mme. de Girardin.
2
Polite beggary is too common.
W. R. Alger.
3
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
Lavater.
4
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Cæsar.
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