“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”
Variant: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
"New Priorities" Dancing Toward The Future, Context Institute http://www.context.org/, (1992)
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Source: After the Funeral (1953)
Context: There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
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“What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.”
Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 367