"As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it."

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Businesspeople from the United StatesPhilanthropists from the United StatesPeople from ClevelandRockefeller familyBrown University alumni
Original Language: English

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Interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, quoted in Drawn from Life (1932)

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Interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, quoted in Drawn from Life (1932)