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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80

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

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

—Jules Renard, 1898
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