"Generosity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nobleness and generosity, Sir Tristram would not take Sir Blamor's life because he refused to yield him, Sir Lancelot and all his kinsmen loved Sir Tristram, and were ever his friends and spoke well ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... generosity, when she gave Jack the money to buy a pair of gloves, had left a small surplus in his pocket. He made a last effort to escape from the deputy-watchman. "There's the money," he said. "Give me back the bottle, and ...
— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins
... instant only; but both were better of the look. He recognized her gratitude, she his generosity and forbearance. ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... co-discoverer of the Darwinian theory (whose honours he waived with rare generosity in favour of the older and more distinguished naturalist), tells a curious story about the predatory habits of these same Sauebas. On one occasion, when he was wandering about in search of specimens on the Rio Negro, he bought a peck of rice, which was tied up, Indian fashion, ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... connected with the history of Eugenia. I remembered her many virtues; her self-devotion for my honour and happiness; her concealing herself from me, that I might not blast my prospects in life by continuing an intimacy which she saw would end in my ruin; her firmness of character, her disinterested generosity, and the refinement of attachment which made her prefer misery and solitude to her own gratification in the society of the man she loved. She had, alas! but one fault, and that fault was loving me. I could not drive from my thoughts, that it was through my unfortunate ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat
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