"Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

William Gilmore Simms

#Lying Quotes #Giving Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.”
“I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.”
“In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.”
“Every day is my best day...I'm not going to have this moment again.”
“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.”

Source : Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press
“I'd rather dance than eat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.”
“Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.”

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