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The notions of the obliged are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

To stand on ceremony with obligations, Is to restrain the obliger.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

There can be no obligation without an obliger.

From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

He does not admit that obligation implies an obliger.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

Indeed I would not place them,' continued the dear obliger, 'in the same county, because I would wish two counties to be blessed for their sakes.'...

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney