“We talk of the debt of gratitude, not of charity, or generosity, nor even of friendship.” — Adam Smith, “Of Justice and Beneficence,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
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“Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.” — Luís Alberto Urrea, The Pleasure of God
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“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
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“If a man permits largeness of heart to degenerate into softness of head, he inevitably becomes a nuisance in any relation of life.” — Theodore Roosevelt, “Fellow-Feeling as a Political Factor“, Century, January, 1900
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“It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.” — George Eliot, Daniel Deronda