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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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