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— Leon Bloy"I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire."
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
— Frances Trollope
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