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Quote by Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into mens heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. – Francis Bacon

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

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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. – Jean De La Bruyere

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The more he cast away the more he had. – John Bunyan

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