Generosity during life is a very different thing from gener… - Horace Mann

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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,— the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist

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