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"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
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"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."

"Never mistake activity for achievement."

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

"Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room."

"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
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