 | "You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
- Albert Schweitzer
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| "The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated."
- Baltasar Gracian
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| "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
- Charles Dudley Warner
, 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873. |
| "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
- Eleanor Hamilton
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| "There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."
- Euripides
, Medea, 431 B.C. |
| "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
- George Eliot
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| "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
- John Wesley
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| "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
- Kahlil Gibran
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| Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
- Lenore Hershe
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