"Wealth tends to materialize the soul. Every contribution to spiritual objects counteracts the tendency. It is another step up the ladder, whose foot is deep down in materialism, but whose top reaches to the holy heavens of spirit and love. Liberality consists not so much in giving a great deal as in giving seasonably."
Beneficence

January 1, 1970

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Jean de La Bruyère, p. 24.

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