Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.
James Lind

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Charles de Secondat

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Robert Hall

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
John Woolman

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
Gerrit Smith

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
John Churton Collins

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
Will Adams

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Merton Miller

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
Kim Jong Il

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
Frank Robinson

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Charles de Secondat