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Show Our Gifts TpHE secret of giving affec- tionately is great and rare; it requires address to do it well; otherwise we lose instead in-stead of deriving benefit from it. This man gives lavishly in a way that obliges no one; the manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Another man loses intentionally at a game, thus disguising his present; another forgets a jewel, which would have been refused as a gift. A generous booby seems to be giving alms to his mistress mis-tress when he is making a present. Corneille. |