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Francis Atterbury Quotes: Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
         

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.


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The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.



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Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.



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He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.



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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.





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