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    philanthropist


    1. In our present generation, billionaire Bill Gates, has shown the world, his compassionate side by becoming a philanthropist


    2. "Sniffen, my overcoat," said the philanthropist


    3. "Why," said the philanthropist, somewhat taken back, "I WAS!"


    4. "Your employer," said the philanthropist, severely, "is certainly careless if he allows his trees to be delivered in this fashion


    5. The philanthropist accepted the burden--he did not know why


    6. "Who are these boys?" inquired the philanthropist


    7. "I see," said the philanthropist


    8. But the philanthropist held up his hand, interrupting her


    9. "Hello, Bill!" answered the philanthropist, sedately


    10. "How would you like," said the philanthropist, reflectively, "an--an--"

    11. The philanthropist solemnly made notes of this


    12. The philanthropist closed the door of the bedroom, and then turned to


    13. The philanthropist nodded, deprecatingly


    14. On his way home the philanthropist saw even more evidences of Christmas


    15. "He was--detained--on Oak Street, I believe," said the philanthropist


    16. Another example is a philanthropist, or ―good deed doer‖, who seeks admiration from his or her fellows; who therefore engages in charitable activities in order to enhance his or her reputation or popular credentials as a reliable advocate of worthy causes


    17. A voracious reader, world traveler and philanthropist, his thoughts and actions encompass the world


    18. It will get re-processed as legitimate medications and be contributed to the World Health Organization, a contribution in the memory of philanthropist, Carlo Gagliano


    19. locally as part of his cover and he was well known as a philanthropist


    20. philanthropist who has recently supplied aid to the African country of

    21. Madoff was known as a philanthropist where he donated a lot of money to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation and hospitals and different theatres


    22. He's a big time philanthropist and a lot of his tech goes into ground breaking medical devices that have changed people's lives


    23. It's one of the reasons his business is so successful and that he's in such demand everywhere as a public speaker and as a philanthropist


    24. He was an astute philanthropist of


    25. It is ever to be remembered that one of the chief obstacles which the philanthropist meets in his efforts to do real and permanent good in this world, is the practice of indiscriminate giving and the duty of the millionaire is to resolve to cease giving to objects that are not clearly proved to his satisfaction to be deserving


    26. "He is a philanthropist," answered the other; "and no doubt his motive in visiting Paris is to compete for the Monthyon prize, given, as you are aware, to whoever shall be proved to have most materially advanced the interests of virtue and humanity


    27. And when they had finished eating they gathered round the philanthropist and sang, `For he's a jolly good fellow,' and afterwards Harlow suggested that they should ask him if he would allow them to elect him to Parliament


    28. The Secretary of the OBS was usually regarded as a sort of philanthropist by the outside public, and it was necessary to keep this fiction alive


    29. "As for myself, I first heard you spoken of by my friend Wilmore, the philanthropist


    30. The awful silence that had fallen on the panic-stricken crowd, was presently broken by a ragged-trousered Philanthropist, who shouted out:

    31. Some anonymous philanthropist would soon step forward to cover the girl’s hospital bills


    32. "I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up


    33. If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very openhearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will pay for their seats out of their own pockets: what he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's


    34. But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance


    35. All the rest is to show what sort of legislator a philanthropist is likely to make," ended the Rector, throwing down the paper, and clasping his hands at the back of his head, while he looked at Mr


    36. Deputations without and voices within had concurred in inducing that philanthropist to take a stronger measure than usual for the good of mankind; namely, to withdraw in favor of another candidate, to whom he left the advantages of his canvassing machinery


    37. It was ten to ten, so Yuki used the few minutes of utter silence to review what she knew about this not-for-profit foundation sponsored by a secret-Santa megabucks philanthropist


    38. I filled him in on the reported good works and the varying theories: that Bagman Jesus was a missionary or a philanthropist, that the baby on his crucifix was a pro-life statement or that it symbolized how we’d all once been innocent and pure—like Baby Jesus


    39. In 1902, the British philanthropist Charles Booth published his study on Life and Labour of the People of London, though many of his findings would also apply to other industrial cities around the world


    40. 0034% of what we spend on entertainment! It’s pennies on the dollar—America’s pocket change! So I partnered with some great minds in business and marketing, including Bob Caruso (social capitalist and former managing partner and COO of one of the top 100 hedge funds in the world, Highbridge Capital Management) and my dear friend Marc Benioff (philanthropist, founder, and CEO of Salesforce

    41. TONY ROBBINS is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist


    42. A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint-Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority


    43. Here is the philanthropist


    44. "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist


    45. Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "philanthropist


    46. the "philanthropist" had left with him


    47. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here


    48. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what


    49. No, young lady, I am not a general philanthropist; but I bear a conscience;” and he pointed to the prominences which are said to indicate that faculty, and which, fortunately for him, were sufficiently conspicuous; giving, indeed, a marked breadth to the upper part of his head: “and, besides, I once had a kind of rude tenderness of heart


    50. “I need it, and I seek it so far, sir, that some true philanthropist will put me in the way of getting work which I can do, and the remuneration for which will keep me, if but in the barest necessaries of life









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    Synonyms for "philanthropist"

    altruist philanthropist benefactor helper patron

    "philanthropist" definitions

    someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being