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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

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

—Eva Perón, 1949

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

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666
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