Reinstating Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases |
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Compiled by:
| Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, |
ISBN: | 978-0-546-72276-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
Publisher: | Icon Group International, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
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Familiar Quotations GenerositiesReal generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.–AnonymousReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.–Albert CamusGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.–Kahlil GibranAnd yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the...
More DescriptionFamiliar Quotations GenerositiesReal generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.–AnonymousReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.–Albert CamusGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.–Kahlil GibranAnd yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.–John F. KennedyGenerosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.–Leslie Baron LeverOne of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.–George OrwellEvery trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.–Saint PierreHe who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.–ProverbI wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.–Will RogersGenerosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.–Jean-Paul Sartre