Charlotte Lennox Quotes

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Charlotte Lennox

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• What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Giving
  • Persons
  • Liberality