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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.
What will you put in the stocking
of the Baby Jesus?
screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta
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What will you put in the stocking
of the Baby Jesus?
screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta
Young, and David's Niven.
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.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . read more
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just read more
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.