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Quote by Max Beerbohm
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of a

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. – Max Beerbohm

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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. – Max Beerbohm

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

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Genius
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. – Idries Shah

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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. – Thomas á Kempis

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. – Ovid

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