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What we share with another ceases to be our own. - Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own. – Edgar Quinet

Other quotes by Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. – Edgar Quinet

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Infinity
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Edgar Quinet
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. – Edgar Quinet

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Future
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Gifts
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Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. – Gottfried Reinhardt

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Gifts

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. – William Shakespeare

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Gifts

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

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Gifts

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. – Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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Gifts

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