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I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949
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