No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.Samuel Johnson
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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