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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ↗

— Freda Adler

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. ↗

— John Calvin

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