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

— Pierre Corneille

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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! ↗

— Henry Home

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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war. ↗

— David F. Houston

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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman. ↗

— Sam Houston

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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

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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move. ↗

— Lance Loud

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