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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

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

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

—Ralph Nader, 2000

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

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

—Jules Renard, 1898
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