[A] How to understand generosity
[B] One way is to stick to your words
[C] The true essence of generosity
[D] Being generous needs thoughts
[E] Never use generosity as a disguise
[F] Small things reflect more
The word "gift" has got dangerously devalued of late. Salesmen use so-called free gifts as bait and publicists use them as bribes; the wealthy can make "gifts" to their children, or to charities, with no more noble motive than saving tax.
41. ________________________
We need to claim the word back this Christmas. We also need to claim back the word "generous": which too often gets used in the senses of over-large portions of food, hotel towels, the size of sheets, or women spilling out of their dresses. For generosity--the ability to make real gifts with modesty and love, expecting nothing back--is one of the things which most make us human. You do not find pigs or lions giving ,one
[A] How to understand generosity
[B] One way is to stick to your words
[C] The true essence of generosity
[D] Being generous needs thoughts
[E] Never use generosity as a disguise
[F] Small things reflect more
The word "gift" has got dangerously devalued of late. Salesmen use so-called free gifts as bait and publicists use them as bribes; the wealthy can make "gifts" to their children, or to charities, with no more noble motive than saving tax.
41. ________________________
We need to claim the word back this Christmas. We also need to claim back the word "generous": which too often gets used in the senses of over-large portions of food, hotel towels, the size of sheets, or women spilling out of their dresses. For generosity--the ability to make real gifts with modesty and love, expecting nothing back--is one of the things which most make us human. You do not find pigs or lions giving ,one
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