Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

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