#gifts

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift." Clara: "What?" Tucker: "You. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

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