"Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue"
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"Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity."
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"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
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"When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received."
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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
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"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
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"Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that."
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"A good relationship is a competition of generosity."
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"Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness."
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"Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all."
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"If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility."
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"He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love."
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"No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side."
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"We get to make a living; we give to make a life."
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"Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed"
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"True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity."
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"With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation."
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"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
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"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."
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"You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity."
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