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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

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

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 love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932
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