They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BC
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Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943