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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel John

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

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Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. – Booker T. Washington

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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind. – Proverb

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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it. – King Abdullah II

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