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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more
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.
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which read more
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.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. read more
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
