“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
Source: Winter's Bone
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Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
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“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”
Source: Keep a Quiet Heart
Dijkstra (2000), "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF (EWD 1305).
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“Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.”
Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 1
An American Dream (1965)
“Never offer advice but where there is some probability ef its being followed.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120
Speech at AIPAC Policy Conference (4 June 2008) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432&ft=1&f=1102
2008
“An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)