 | "Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
- Albert Camus
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| "One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."
- Andrew Carnegie
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| "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
- Francis Maitland Balfour
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| "The living need charity more than the dead."
- George Arnold
, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866). |
| Charity see the need not the cause.
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German Proverb. |
| "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
- Jack London
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| "In charity there is no excess."
- Sir Francis Bacon
, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625). |
| "Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous."
- Sir Thomas Browne
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| "Charity begins at home."
- Terence
, Andria. |
| "The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."
- William Hutton
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