"That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation."
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"Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined."
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"Children have but little charity for one another's defects"
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"This only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
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"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
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"We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone."
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"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."
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"It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise."
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"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
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"Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy."
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"It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities."
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"The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving."
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"Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment."
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"Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune."
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"Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God."
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"One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you."
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"I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live."
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"Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business."
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"Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves."
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"I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away."
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