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  • We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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  • Wyndham Lewis The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus every Part was full of Vice,
    Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
    Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
    They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
    And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
    The Balance of all other Hives.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Mark Twain We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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