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• I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

  Paul Auster

  Giving, Want, Way

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Kind, Truth Is

  P. T. Barnum (2005). “Making Money”, p.77

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• A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Witty, Men, Noses

  Cyrano de Bergerac (1965). “Other Worlds: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun”, London : Oxford University Press

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Illumination

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Insecure, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

  Albert Brooks

  Being The Best, Best Person, Persons

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• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  Harry Browne

  People, Moral, Humanitarian

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• Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  People, Survival, Politics

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Causes

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

  Anne Campbell

  Thinking, Long, Boards

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• People say, "You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous". Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Giving, Natural

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Art, Quilts, Passion

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• If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

  Margaret Cho

  Heart, Opportunity, Ideas

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• After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Ruling, Disdain

  "Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste (Cinna or the clemency of Caesar Augustus)". Comedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), 1641.

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• We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

  Rachel Corrie

  Beautiful, Strong, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

  Justin Cronin

  Long, Houston, Professors

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

  Sloane Crosley

  Done, Serious, States

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.6, Portobello Books

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• If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

  Rita Dove

  Trust, Choices, Levels

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.144, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

  James Fenton

  Done, Realistic, Imitation

  The Independent on Sunday, December 16, 1990.

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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  Robert Frost

  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

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• Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Generosity, Giving, Absence

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• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Life, Hard Work, Generosity

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