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Henry Home, Lord Kames Quotes about Giving

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

"Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.28