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James Russell Lowell: Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a…

Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

In today’s wordsWords and money, like everything else, are fairly easy to give away; but when someone gives his daily life and practice, it's plain that the truth, whatever it is, has taken hold of him.

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From the book Among Vy Books. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists, as quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (compiled by Anna L. Ward, 1889)

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