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"You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action."	William Bolitho
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Albert Camus
"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous."	Chuang-Tzu
"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."	André Gide
"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has."	Arthur John Gossip
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest."	Junius
"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."	Sheldon Kopp
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."	Johann Kaspar Lavater
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."	George MacDonald
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."	Henry Louis Mencken
"For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all."	Kahlil Gibran
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."	Anne Sexton
"O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."	Saint Francis of Assisi
"For it is in giving that we receive."	Saint Francis of Assisi
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Carmichael	Charles Dickens	Chuang-Tzu
Confucius	Damien Hess	Dean Koontz
Doug Larson	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Eric Hoffer
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George Eliot	George MacDonald	George Herbert Walker Bush
Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Louis Mencken	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
Joan L. Curcio	Johann Kaspar Lavater	John Blofeld
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Junius	Kahlil Gibran
Nadia Boulanger	Ogden Nash	Og Mandino
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Exely	Saint Augustine	Saint Francis of Assisi
Sheldon Kopp	Simone de Beauvoir	Tao Le Ching
William Blake	William Bolitho	William John Bennett
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