"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them."
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"Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery."
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"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
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"To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]"
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"It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise."
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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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"He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe."
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"Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune."
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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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"The future of marketing is philanthropy."
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"Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective."
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"When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?"
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"The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."
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