oblige
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To attach, as by a bond.
To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.
To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
Noblesse oblige.
Noblesse oblige.