Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949If 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, 1894The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666