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The Possessed

CHAPTER V
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And what used you to say to me about charity?
Yet the enjoyment derived from charity is a haughty and immoral enjoyment.

The rich man's enjoyment in his wealth, his power, and in the comparison of his importance with the poor.

Charity corrupts giver and taker alike; and, what's more, does not attain it's object, as it only increases poverty.

Fathers who don't want to work crowd round the charitable like gamblers round the gambling-table, hoping for gain, while the pitiful farthings that are flung them are a hundred times too little.

Have you given away much in your life?
Less than a rouble, if you try and think.


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