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Quote by James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; th

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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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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

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