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    Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

    Horace Mann
    Generosity
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    Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

    Khalil Gibran
    Generosity
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    Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Generosity
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    Generosity is the flower of justice.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Generosity
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    Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

    Jean de La Bruyère
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    Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

    William Wordsworth
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    Giving is the business of the rich.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    How much easier is it to be generous than just.

    Junius
    Generosity
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    If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.

    Generosity
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    Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Generosity
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    It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Lavishness is not generosity.

    Thomas Fuller M.D.
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    Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

    Jean de La Bruyère
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    Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

    Alexander Pope
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    People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

    Sydney Harris
    Generosity
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    Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

    Samuel Johnson
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    The more he cast away the more he had.

    John Bunyan
    Generosity
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    The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Generosity
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    There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

    Eric Hoffer
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    To generous souls every task is noble.

    Euripides
    Generosity
  21. 21

    What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

    François de La Rochefoucauld
    Generosity
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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.

    François de La Rochefoucauld
    Generosity

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