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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

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

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

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666
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