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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."

"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."

"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 think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative."

"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."

"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."

"Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest."

"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life."

"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."

"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."

"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."
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