Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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