The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. O. Henry
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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Mary Oliver
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Jim Valvano
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
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More Quotes By O. Henry
No friendship is an accident.
He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
