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Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about money, world, people

Be just before you are generous.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment

The generous can forget that they have given, but the grateful can never forget that they have received.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

More generous than Hatim.

Proverbs and old sayings

Be just before you're generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

It is easy to be generous with another man's money.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about money, man

It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wealth, man

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.

Proverbs and old sayings English about nothing, man

Who is generous is lazy, who is angry is diligent.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

No one is as generous as he who has nothing to give.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

The generous and bold have the best lives.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Big bellies were never generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Indifference is a generous kind of intolerance.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about indifference

One may be generous at heart, but may not be able to afford it.

Proverbs and old sayings about heart

In thy home be joyous and generous to guests discreet shalt thou be in thy bearing.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

Men are very generous with what costs them nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man, nothing