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Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain, 1894

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC
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