John Steinbeck Quotes
Perhaps The Most Overrated Virtue In Our List Of Shoddy Virtues Is That Of Giving. Giving Builds Up The Ego Of The Giver, Makes Him Superior And Higher And Larger Than The Receiver. Nearly Always, Giving Is A Selfish Pleasure, And In Many Cases It Is A Downright Destructive And Evil Thing. One Has Only To Remember Some Of Our Wolfish Financiers Who Spend Two-thirds Of Their Lives Clawing Fortunes Out Of The Guts Of Society And The Latter Third Pushing It Back. It Is Not Enough To Suppose That Their Philanthropy Is A Kind Of Frightened Restitution, Or That Their Natures Change When They Have Enough. Such A Nature Never Has Enough And Natures Do Not Change That Readily. I Think That The Impulse Is The Same In Both Cases. For Giving Can Bring The Same Sense Of Superiority As Getting Does, And Philanthropy May Be Another Kind Of Spiritual Avarice.
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