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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

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

—Maya Angelou, 1993

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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