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“A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”

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Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

“Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.”

Thinking Men Reason Done Action Remember Grows Benefits All Things Noble Generous Liberality

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.”

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Author:Tina Weymouth

“A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.”

Spirit Gratitude Benefits Generous Eloquent Generous Spirit

Book:Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author

Source: Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author

“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”

Thinking May Quality Virtue Benefits Accounts Praise Credit Neighbor Generous Pockets Spares Bankers Good Quality Highwaymen

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.”

“I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.”

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Author:David Schwimmer

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.”