Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Giving
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Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
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No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
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When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
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What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
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We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
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A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
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