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| It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. | Washington Irving | Old Christmas |  |
| Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion? | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters |  |
| Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters |  |
| Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. | Anthony Trollope | Barchester Towers |  |
| . . . still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |  |
| " . . . how much good do you suppose condescending charity does?" | Charles Dudley Warner | A Little Journey in the World |  |
| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! | George Eliot | Middlemarch |  |
| "Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing." | Myrtle Reed | Old Rose and Silver |  |
| "Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures." | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband |  |