Quotes with benefactor

  • Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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  • George Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain 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.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Og Mandino 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.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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