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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER VIII
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JASMIN AS PHILANTHROPIST.
It is now necessary to consider Jasmin in an altogether different character--that of a benefactor of his species.

Self-sacrifice and devotion to others, forgetting self while spending and being spent for the good of one's fellow creatures, exhibit man in his noblest characteristics.

But who would have expected such virtues to be illustrated by a man like Jasmin, sprung from the humblest condition of life?
Charity may be regarded as a universal duty, which it is in every person's power to practise.

Every kind of help given to another, on proper motives, is an act of charity; and there is scarcely any man in such a straitened condition as that he may not, on certain occasions, assist his neighbour.


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