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

—Eva Perón, 1949

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC
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