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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Generosity
Kahlil Gibran

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Generosity is the flower of justice.
Generosity
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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Jean De La Bruyere

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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William Wordsworth

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Giving is the business of the rich.
Generosity
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Generosity
Junius

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Generosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Lavishness is not generosity.
Generosity
Thomas Fuller

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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Generosity
Jean De La Bruyere

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Alexander Pope

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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Generosity
Sidney J. Harris

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The more he cast away the more he had.
Generosity
John Bunyan

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Generosity
Jean-Paul Sartre

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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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Eric Hoffer

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To generous souls every task is noble.
Generosity
Euripides

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What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
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Robert of Doncaste

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun