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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. - Walter Ben

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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

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

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

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