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Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Gifts make slaves.