<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Risk Is in the Giving</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The risk is in the giving, <br>Not the taking of a gift one gets.<br>Many times that which is given, <br>An appreciation returned...<br>Seldom comes with it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People take advantage, <br>Of what comes...<br>As a deed to please.<br>With an inspection to put a value, <br>On that which is received.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a showing of an ungratefulness, <br>The giver of the gift to give...<br>Often leaves with this believed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People take advantage, <br>Of what comes...<br>As a deed to please.<br>With an inspection to put a value, <br>On that which is received.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The risk is in the giving, <br>Not the taking of a gift one gets.<br>Many times that which is given, <br>An appreciation returned...<br>Seldom comes with it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when one does hear from another, <br>A thankfulness expressed.<br>The one who is gifted expresses this, <br>With an acknowledgement...<br>It is 'not' the gift one gets, <br>But the thoughtfulness of the one who gives...<br>And that is the exchange one does not soon forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443656" data-title="The Risk Is in the Giving de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="The risk is in the giving, Not the taking of a gift one gets. Many times that which is given, An appreciation returned... Seldom comes with it. People take advantage, Of what comes... As a deed to please. With an inspection to put a value, On..."></div> </div> </div>

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