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Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotesIf the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
Josh Billings quotesTo enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
Oscar Wilde quotesPhilanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotesThe worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
John Keats quotesAre there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
Virginia Woolf quotesBoredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Ambrose Bierce quotesPhilanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.