I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943
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They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCIf 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, 1894I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BC