What did you say about charity for example? Yet the pleasure of bestowing charity is arrogant and immoral, a rich man's pleasure in his own wealth, power and importance compared with that of a pauper. Charity corrupts both the giver and receiver; in addition, it doesn't achieve its purpose because it merely intensifies the poverty.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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