Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239
topic: Generosity, Giving, Debt, Magnanimity, Magnanimous