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I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

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

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80
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