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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

- Jean De La Bruy�re

The more he cast away the more he had.

- John Bunyan

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity, in important things, diversity, in all things, generosity.

- George Bush

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

- Barry Duncan

To generous souls every task is noble.

- Euripides

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is the flower of justice.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

- Anna Jameson

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

- Samuel Johnson

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

- Junius

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

- Jean De La Bruyere

Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

- Alexander Pope

What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.

- Robert of Doncaste

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

- Sir Henry Taylor

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