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If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gat

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. – Arabic Proverb

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. – Proverb

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