"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."

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Philo

#Giving Quotes #Honor Quotes #Philanthropy Quotes

“Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.”
“Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.”
“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”

Source : Harper's, Aug. 1958
“You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.”
“I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.”
“Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?”
“I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.”

Source : "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

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