Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992
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They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956