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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in…

Quote byHorace Mann · 1796–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 211.

English (original)

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,— the other from pride or fear.

— Horace Mann

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