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Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

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

—Jules Renard, 1898

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956
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