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Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. -- Mary Douglas
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. -- Charles Williams
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. -- Michele Bachmann
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better. -- Gary Bauer
Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there. -- Sharron Angle
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it? -- Heather Brooke
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). -- Mike Curran
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students. -- Donald Trump
With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector's contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated. -- Karen Elliott House
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars -- Holless Wilbur Allen
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. -- Alexander Fraser Tytler
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. -- George Gilder

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