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

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

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

—Jules Renard, 1898

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

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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