C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Request
The sequence of requests is obligation.
Junius.
It is hard to ask; it is sweet to give.
Mme. de Girardin.
Polite beggary is too common.
W. R. Alger.
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
Lavater.
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Cæsar.