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REVENGE
REVIEWS --- REVOLUTION --- REWARD

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see: "ENEMIES"
see: "HATE"
see: "MALICE"
see: "PUNISHMENT"
see: "ACTIONS" for other related links
see: "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for other related links

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In taking revenge a man is but even with his
enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior,
for it is a prince's part to pardon.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625], "Of Revenge"


A man that studieth revenge keeps his own
wounds green, which otherwise would heal.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625], "Of Revenge"

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An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,
a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.
--Bible
"Exodus" 21:24


Vengence is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
--Bible
"Romans" 12:19


Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 9:7 NIV


You shall not stand idly by your brother's blood.
--Bible
"Leviticus" 19:16


Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard
for good things in the sight of all men.
--Bible
"Romans" 12:17

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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has
wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect
that she is growing older every minute. You are
avenged 1440 times a day.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
"Epigrams" in _The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce_
[Neale Pub. Co., NY & Wash., 1911].

I've labored long and hard for bread
For honor and for riches
But on my corns too long you've tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.
--Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (1829—1917?)
American outlaw.
In a note he left behind after he robbed
a Wells Fargo stagecoach, quoted in
Joseph H. Jackson _Bad Company_ [1949].

It is always dangerous to offend the dignity of the ignorant.
--Renι Cailliι (1799—1838)
French explorer who was the first European to to visit Timbuktu and return.
Quoted in Galbraith Welch _The Unveiling of Timbuctoo_ [1939].

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The players all played at once without waiting for
turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for
the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen
was in a furious passion, and went stamping about,
and shouting "Off with his head!" or "Off with her
head!" about once in a minute.

Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had
not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she
knew that it might happen any minute, "and then,"
thought she, "what would become of me? They're
dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great
wonder is, that there's any one left alive!"

--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865], "The Queen's Croquet-Ground"

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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when
it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
--Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880)
American clergyman and author.
_Living Words_ [1861]

Before seeking revenge, first dig two graves.
--Chinese Proverb

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I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy;
but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XXXV [1820]


An act by which we make one friend and one enemy
is a losing game, because revenge is a much stronger
principle than gratitude.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XCVIII [1820]


Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven; all men,
on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge
at compound interest.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCCLIX [1820]

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Heaven hath no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.
--William Congreve (1670—1729)
English dramatist.
"The Mourning Bride" [1697]

[Sheriff George of Nottingham (Alan Rickman):]
Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No
more merciful beheadings. And call off Christmas!
--Pen Densham and John Watson, screenplay for
"Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" [1991 film].

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly
to despise, than to revenge an injury.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1752]

An eye for an eye only ends up
making the whole world blind.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule.
Quoted in Louis Fischer _The Life of Mahatma Gandhi_, ch. 11 [1950].

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
--Paul Gauguin (1848—1903)
French artist.
_Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals_ [1949 ed.]

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to
pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon
is squeezed — until the pips squeak.
--Eric Geddes (1875—1937)
British politician and administrator.
Speech at Cambridge [10 December 1918].

Who hath not courage to revenge,
will never find generosity to forgive.
--Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696—1782)
Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher.
_Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1789]

If you attend to your work, and let your enemy alone,
some one else will come along some day, and do him
up for you.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
_Country Town Sayings_ [1911]

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
Quoted in "Indianapolis News" [4 January 1925].

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Old Irish Prayer

May those that love us, Love Us.
And those that don't love us
May God turn their hearts.
And if He can't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
so we know them by their limp!

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Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure
of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.
--Juvenal (c. 55—130)
Roman satirist.
_Satires_

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Don't get mad, get even.
--Joseph P. Kennedy (1888—1969)
American financier.
In Ben Bradlee _Conversations With Kennedy_ [1975].

& see:

Don't get mad. Don't get even.
Just get elected, then get even.
--attributed to James Carville (b. 1944)
American political strategist.

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Few things are more satisfying than seeing
your children have teenagers of their own.
--attributed to Doug Larson (1902—1981)
American journalist.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence;
forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance
who offered it.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.
In John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words
of the Best Authors_ p. 41 [1829].

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
--"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" [June 1901]

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_ Book VI, Number 6

Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Paradise Lost_ [1667]

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget,
simply bury the hatchet, but leave the handle
out for immediate use.
--Dwight Lyman Moody (1837—1899)
American evangelist and publisher.
Attributed in Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_, p. 25 [2001], "Bitterness."

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Thought for a Sunshiny Morning" [1928]

There is no finer revenge than that which _others_ inflict
on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving
you the role of a generous man.
--Cesare Pavese (1908—1950)
Italian novelist, poet, and translator.
_This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935—1950_ [1952]

He that corrects out of Passion raises
Revenge sooner than Repentance.
--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw
the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.
_Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693]

He who has injured thee was either stronger
or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if
stronger, spare thyself.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_De ira_ (On anger), III

The wheel is come full circle.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Lear_, V, iii, 172 [1605-06]

Beware of the man who does not return your blow:
he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive
yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish dramatist and critic.
_Man and Superman_ [1903] "The Revolutionist's Handbook"

Men are more ready to repay an injury than
a benefit because gratitude is a burden and
revenge a pleasure.
--Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
(c.55—c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian.
In Niccolς Machiavelli (1469-1527) _The Discourses_ [1517].

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
--Abigail Van Buren [Pauline Esther Friedman] (b. 1918)
American advice columnist.
In her newspaper column "Dear Abby" [7 March 1974].

[Comment in letter:]
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me.
I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will
ruin you.
--Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794—1877)
American shipping and railroad magnate.
Quoted in Matthew Josephson _The Robber Barons_ [1934].

[Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton):]
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.
--"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939 film]
Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf.

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For him that stealeth a book from this library, let
it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.
Let him be struck by palsy and all his members
blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for
mercy, and let there be no surcease for his agony
until he sinks into dissolution. Let book-worms gnaw
his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and
when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the
flames of hell consume him for ever and aye.
--Warning displayed in the library of the Popish Monestary of San
Pedro, Barcelona, Spain. Quoted in _Old Librarians Almanack_ [1773].

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To attack a man for talking nonsense is like
finding your mortal enemy drowning in a
swamp and jumping in after him with a
knife.
--anon.

The only people with whom you should try
to get even are those who have helped you.
--anon.

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A farmer in the country had a watermelon patch and
upon inspection discovered that some of the local kids
had been helping themselves to a feast.

The farmer thought of ways to discourage the pilfering.
He put up a sign: "WARNING: ONE OF THESE
WATERMELONS CONTAINS CYANIDE!"

The farmer returned a week later to discover that none
of the watermelons have been eaten, but found another
sign: "NOW THERE ARE TWO!"

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vendetta (noun) [ven-'de-tκ]
A blood feud between families that usually
begins with a murder and continues with
violent reciprocation on both sides.




REVIEWS

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see: "CRITICISM"
see: "ACTORS" for other related links


[Headline about rural filmgoers' rejection of motion
pictures about rural life:]
Sticks Nix Hick Pix.
--Abel Green (1900—1973)
American journalist.
"Variety" [17 July 1935]

Thank you for your very amusing review. After
reading it, in fact, my brother George and I
laughed all the way to the bank.
--Liberace (1919—1987)
American showman.
Quoted in "TV Guide" [26 February 1964].

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid
it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I
intend reading it.
(Dust jacket written for S.J. Perelman's _Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge_ [1928])
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
In Hector Arce _Groucho_ [1979].

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It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity,
frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue
of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"New Yorker" [25 February 1928]


[In book review:]
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
Quoted in _The Algonquin Wits_ (ed.) Robert E. Drennan [1968].

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I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have
your review before me. In a moment it will be behind
me.
(Responding to a savage review by Rudolph Lewis
in Munchener Neueste Nachrichten [7 February 1906].)
--Max Reger (1873—1916)
German composer.
In Nicholas Slonimsky _Lexicon of Musical Invective_ [1953].

While the critic caused me a somewhat uneasy breakfast,
I contented myself with the knowledge that I had given
him a perfectly ghastly evening.
--Jeremy Sinden (1950—1996)
British actor.
In "The Times" [31 May 1996].

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I've just read your lousy review of [of a concert by Truman's daughter
Margaret] I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man
on four ulcer pay."

It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could
have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the
back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're
off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.

Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new
nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!

Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope
you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on
your ancestry.

H.S.T.

--Harry S Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945-53].
Letter to Paul Hume [6 December 1950].

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REVOLUTION

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see: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
see: "FREEDOM"
see: "TYRANNY"
see: "WAR & PEACE"
see: "THE HUMAN RACE"



Inferiors revolt in order that they may be
equal, and equals that they may be superior.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Politics_, bk. V

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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
--John Bradshaw (1602—1659)
English lawyer.
He presided at the trial of Charles I. Buried in Westminster
Abbey, his body was exhumed at the Restoration and hanged
in public, like that of Cromwell.
Quoted in a Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Everett [24 February 1823].

but see:

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
--Wikiquote attributes this to Edmund Andros (1637—1714)
Early colonial English governor in North America.

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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it
again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith.
It does not matter how small you are if you have
faith and plan of action.
--Fidel Castro (b. 1926)
Political leader of Cuba from 1959.
In _New York Times_ [22 April 1959].

Never strike a king unless you
are sure you shall kill him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Entry written in September, 1843 _Journals_ [1909-14].

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be
only five Kings left — the King of England, the
King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of
Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
--King Farouk (1920—1965)
King of Egypt [1936-52].
Quoted in "Life" [10 April 1950], as quoted in Fred R.
Shapiro (ed.) _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006].

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Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790),
American statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor.

When Franklin was in France, he frequently used
to play chess with the elderly Duchess of Bourbon.
On one occasion Franklin put her king in check
and took it. 'We do not take kings so,' remonstrated
the duchess. 'We do in America,' replied Franklin.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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[Of Shay's Rebellion:]
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good
thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms
in the physical. [...] It is a medicine necessary for the
sound health of government.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801-09].
Letter to James Madison [30 January 1787]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-63].
Speaking to Latin American diplomats
at the White House [12 March 1962].

'There won't be any revolution in America,' said
Isadore. Nikitin agreed. 'The people are all too
clean. They spend all the time changing their shirts
and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and
revolutionary in a bathroom.'
--Eric Linklater (1899—1974)
Scottish novelist.
_Juan in America_, bk 5, pt 3 [1931]

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[Of the Hungarian uprising:]
The Soviet troops are assisting the Hungarian
people to retain their independence from
imperialism.
--"Daily Worker" (London) [7 November 1956]

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Revolutions are never fought by turning the other
cheek. Revolutions are never based upon love-your-
enemy and pray-for-those-who [de]spitefully-use-you.
And revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall
Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.
--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
_Malcolm X Speaks_ [1965]

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread?
It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.
--Jean-Paul Marat (1743—1793)
French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the
radical Montagnard faction during the French revolution.
Letter to Camille Desmoulins [24 June 1790].

Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of
government with a strong hand, or your republic will
be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians
in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in
the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals
who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without and
that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered
within your own country by your own institutions [...]
Your constitution is all sail and no anchor.
--Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800—1859)
English politician and historian.
To Henry Stephens Randall (American politician) [23 May 1857], in Thomas
Pinney (ed.) _The Letters of Thomas Babington Macauley_ v. 6, p. 96 [1981].

The revolutionary is a lost man; he has no interest of
his own, no cause of his own, no feelings, no habits,
no belongings; he does not even have a name [...] He
will be an implacable enemy of this world, and if he
continues to live in this world, that will only be so
as to destroy it the more effectively.
--Sergey Nechaev (1847—1882)
Russian revolutionary.
_Catechism of the Revolutionary_ [1869]

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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution
is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the
past. Its foundations are laid far back.
--Wendell Phillips (1811—1884)
American abolitionist and reformer.
Speech [8 January 1852].


Insurrection of thought always
precedes insurrection of arms.
--Wendell Phillips (1811—1884)
American abolitionist and reformer.
On John Brown, in a speech at Harper's Ferry [1 November 1859].

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If Russia chooses to develop purely on her own line
and to resist the growth of liberalism, then she may
put off the day of reckoning; but she cannot ultimately
avert it, and [...] she will sometime experience a real
terror which will make the French Revolution pale.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901-09].
To Cecil Spring Rice [13 August 1897], in Elting Morison (ed.)
_The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt_ v. 1, p. 647 [1951].

It was like a trip into the future. I could write a
mile and not tell all that makes me glad these
days. I have seen the future; and it works.
--Lincoln Steffens (1866—1936)
American journalist.
In a letter to Marie Howe, during his visit to Russia [3 April 1919].

[On the Terror of 1793-94:]
The Terror isolated and stupefied the deputies just as it did
ordinary citizens. On entering the Assembly each member,
full of distrust, watched his words and actions, lest a crime
be made out of them. And indeed everything mattered:
where you sat, a gesture, a look, a murmur or a smile.
--attributed to Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (1765—1854)
French politician.

The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost
always better than that which immediately preceded
it, and experience shows that the most dangerous
moment for a bad government is generally that in
which it sets about reform.
--Alexis de Tocqueville (1805—1859)
French historian and politician.
_L'Ancien rιgime_ [1856]

Freedom of assembly is granted, but the assemblies
are surrounded by the military. Freedom of speech is
granted, but censorship exists as before. Freedom of
knowledge is granted, but the universities are occupied
by troops. Inviolability of the person is granted, but
the prisons are overflowing,
--Leon Trotsky (1879—1940)
Russian revolutionary.
Referring to the October Manifesto of 1905, in
Sidney Harcave _First Blood_, p. 244 [1964].

Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and
I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the
National Guardsman who shot you.
--Dr. Paul Williamson,
father of a Kent State student enrolled after the 1970 shooting;
in Harrison E. Salisbury (ed.) _The Eloquence of Protest: Voices of the 70s_ [1972].

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putsch [PUCH] ('u' as in 'push'), noun:
A secretly planned and suddenly executed
attempt to overthrow a government.

sedition [sih-DISH-un], noun:
Conduct or language inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority.





REWARD

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see: "GIFTS"
see: "PUNISHMENT"
see: "MONEY" for other related links


A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861)
English poet.
"Adam's Prophecy of Woman"

If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
--attributed to Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, First Series [1841], "Friendship"


The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, Second Series [1844], "Nominalist and Realist"

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No good deed goes unpunished.
--attributed to Clare Boothe Luce (1903—1987)
American playwright and politician.

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.
--Babe Ruth (1895—1948)
American major-league baseball player.
In 1930, responding to the complaint that his salary
of $80,000 was more than the President's $75,000.

He that does good to another does good also to himself,
not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the
consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 51 [1872].

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Published in the "Hartford Courant" in 1875:

TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLAR REWARD—At
the great baseball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged
in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made
brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to
bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of that umbrella
in good condition to my house on Farmington avenue. I
do not want the boy (in an active state) but will pay two
hundred dollars for his remains.

Samuel L. Clemens.

--In _Mark Twain's Helpful Hints For Good Living: A Handbook
For The Damned Human Race_, Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor
Fischer, and Michael B. Frank [2004].

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must
put up with the face, the friends, the health, and
the children you have earned.
--Fay Weldon (b. 1931)
British novelist.
Quoted in Randy Voorhees _Old Age Is Always
15 Years Older Than I Am_, p. 87 [2001].

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guerdon [GUR-duhn], noun:
A reward.


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