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  ...TEACHER--"Now, Jimmy, I want you to memorize today's motto, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
JIMMY--"Yes'm, but I know it now. My father says he has always used that as his motto in his business."
TEACHER--"Oh, how noble of him! And what is his business?"
JIMMY--"He's a prize-fighter, ma'am."--_Life_.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.--_Beveridge_.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.   --_Beecher_.

GENIUS
WILLIE--"Paw, what is the difference between genius and talent?"
PAW--"Talent gets paid every Saturday, my son."
Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
--_Dryden_.
Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.--_Lavater_.
And genius hath electric...   Beecher, Henry Ward

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