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The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain, 1894

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC
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