Charity

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

Mother Teresa (b. 1910), Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary. Quoted in: Time (New York, 29 Dec. 1975).

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"A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police."

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. Peachum, in The Threepenny Opera, act 1, sc. 1.