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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

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

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

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

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

—Albert Camus, 1956

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641
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