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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Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCEvery gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932