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Furthermore: all the actions done in accordance with virtue are

honourable, and done from the motive of honour: and the Liberal

man, therefore, will give from a motive of honour, and will give

rightly; I mean, to proper persons, in right proportion, at right

times, and whatever is included in the term "right giving:" and

this too with positive pleasure, or at least without pain, since

whatever is done in accordance with virtue is pleasant or at

least not unpleasant, most certainly not attended with positive

pain.