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Quote by Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the power

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns

Other quotes by Robert Burns

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. – Robert Burns

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Quotations
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Robert Burns
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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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Literary
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Robert Burns
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To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com

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Kindness

Kindness begets kindness. – Proverb

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Kindness

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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Kindness

If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? – Author unknown, quoted by Jacob M. Braude

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Kindness

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Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. – Author Unknown

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. – Red Auerbach

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. – Linda Blandford

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