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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

—Jules Renard, 1898

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932
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