I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Moral Essays: Volume III
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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