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title: "4 Blesses Gives Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-layard-baron-layard/kindness-is-like-mercy-it-blesses-him-that-gives-and-him-that-takes/)

[Richard Layard, Baron Layard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-layard-baron-layard/)

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> [What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/what-money-is-better-bestowed-than-that-of-a-schoolboy-s-tip-how-the/)

[William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/)

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> [Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawna-markova/kindness-is-twice-blessed-it-blesses-the-one-who-gives-it-with-a/)

[Dawna Markova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawna-markova/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/dawna-markova-19652_beneficence_kindness-is-twice-blessed-it-blesses-the_1745688.png)

> [Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-s-monson/times-change-years-speed-by-but-christmas-continues-sacred-it-is/)

[Thomas S. Monson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-s-monson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/thomas-s-monson-409_bless_times-change-years-speed-by-but-christma_2958339.png)

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