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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice." »Henry Taylor
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"generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal." »Marya Mannes
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"generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal." »Marya Mannes
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"generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out." »Frank A. Clark
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"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." »Albert Camus
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"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
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"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present." »Albert Camus
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"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." »Otto von Bismark
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"Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity." »Luther Standing Bear
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." »Thomas Huxley
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"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." »Confucius
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"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy." »Dean Koontz
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"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." »Emma Goldman
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"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness." »Confucius
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"I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." »Kahlil Gibran
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"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house." »Josephine Hart, "Sin"
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"Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich." »Eva Pern
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