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Generosity Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
- Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.
- There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
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