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"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."
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"... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

"The more you give, the less you need."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."

"The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor."
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"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
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