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“We are born to do benefits; and what better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends? O, what a precious comfort tis to have so many like brothers commanding one anothers fortunes!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a mans general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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