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Sometimes when
I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red
Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the
Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin
and put it on display.
-- David Duchovny
1960-, American Actor
The appalling
thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see
it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a
charity ward, you know.
-- Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author
Do not tell me
of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are
they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that
I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men
as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Give no
bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and
you need not give alms.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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A rich man
without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no
difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
Not he who has
much is rich, but he who gives much.
-- Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American
Psychologist
Charity begins
at home, but should not end there.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
The truly
generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others,
lives unblest.
-- Henry Home
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