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“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Dodonaer James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.”
Robert Browning quotes (Major English Poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. 1812-1889)

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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
Adam Smith quotes (Scottish philosopher and economist, 1723-1790)
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“Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our”
David Hume quotes (Scottish Philosopher, Historian, Economist and Essayist. 1711-1776)

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“You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”


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“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
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“Politeness is benevolence in small things.”

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