"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

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As quoted in The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1960) by Tryon Edwards and C. N. Catrevas, p. 259