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
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The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993