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“A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.”

Ifs Doe Book Brother Return Demand Sells Stranger Foolish Copies Presentation Autographs

Author:Charles Lamb

“A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.”

Helping Brother Simplicity Stranger Generosity Beggar

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.”

World Feels Home Brother Affection Humble Stranger Brothers And Sisters Unattractive

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.”

Years Kind Hard Wanted Attention Laughing Brother Ten Stranger My Brother Family And Friends Athletic Stardom Being Funny Gimmicks Strangers And Friends

Author:Gary Gulman

“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.”

People Thinking Way Looks I Can Guy Laughing Creative Rich Brother Easier Taxes Stranger Spending Profession Saving My Brother Components Rich People Saving Money Manageable Life Saving

Author:Gary Gulman

“Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.”

Made Brother Stranger

Book:Gitanjali: Song Offerings

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

“The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.”

People Mother Father Situation Crazy Brother Lifetime Raised Stranger Dramatic My Brother Over It My Sister Chill

Author:Angel Olsen

“There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister... have been turned down for adoption by their own grandparents... If that weren't enough, the siblings are now to be adopted by two complete strangers against the wishes of the grandparents... And as if that weren't enough, the two strangers are a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples.”

“The idea that we are our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper. That we should treat others as we would want to be treated. And that we care for the sick... feed the hungry... and welcome the stranger... no matter where they come from, or how they practice their faith.”

Want Should Ideas Matter Care Practice Brother Treats Sick Stranger Hungry Treated Welcome Keepers

Author:Michelle Obama

“I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.”

Past Brother Praying Stranger

Author:Mitali Perkins

“You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.”

Home Brother Stranger Aliens

Author:Rabindranath Tagore