If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the re…

Charles Caleb Colton
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.115
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