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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. ↗

— Don Herold

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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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