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"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
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"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."

"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"

"Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think."

"Always err on the side of generosity."

"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

"To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves."

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

"We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give."

"Finding the good in others is mutually rewarding for both you and the fortunate recipient of your kind words. Don't you love being around people who make you feel great about yourself? Don't you want to do business with people who make you feel valued and important? Wouldn't you rather work with people who appreciate and respect you? Of course you would! Now go out and do that for others! When you become a generous good-finder you will infuse positive energy, optimism, and good will into their lives, as well as your own."
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."

"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
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