Quote#Kindness
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and…
Quote byStella Benson · 1892–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Living Alone (1919), Ch. 4 (pp. 91–2).
English (original)
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? ... The real Love knows her neighbour face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.
— Stella Benson
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