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It’s easy to be generous with money.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale A nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale I’ve got a group who can’t play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend.
Alan BleasdaleAlan Bleasdale There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
Bette MidlerBette Midler Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry JamesHenry James Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
Tim MinchinTim Minchin If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord ActonLord Acton Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
Lord ActonLord Acton A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
Lord ActonLord Acton