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«People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.»
Author: John Betjeman | Keywords: backyard, backyards, benefactors, railway, railways, The Backyard
«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: Mankind, Military, Vice | Keywords: benefactors, bestow, destroyers, exalted, The Vice
«The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.»
Author: Og Mandino (Essayist, Psychologist) | Keywords: as such, benefactor, benefactors, crown, lentil, merits, raises, raising, receives, rewarded, The Crown
«No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.»
Author: St. Francis of Assisi | About: Enemies | Keywords: benefactors
«And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: benefactors, kings of the
«Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e»
Author: Buddha | About: Attitude, Gratitude, Kindness, Men | Keywords: appreciation, benefactor, benefactors, differ, e'en, grateful, gratitude, radically, Return Of, shown, Wise Men
«A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Charity | Keywords: benefactor, benefactors, characteristic, charity, fixed, hates, Human nature, receiving
«There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: benefactor, benefactors, draws, hook, jawed, jaws, sticks
«Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: benefactor, benefactors, erring, forsaken, forsaking, kindliest, prized, refuge, solace, solaced, solaces, weary
«Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: Adam, benefactor, benefactors, curse, grateful, idleness
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