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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

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993
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