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

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

—Jules Renard, 1898

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

—William Blake, 1804

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC
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