To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all w…

Max Beerbohm
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2015). The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, p.71, New York Review of Books
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