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The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

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

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

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

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

—Ralph Nader, 2000
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