“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.”
"Rudyard Kipling", p. 31
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
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British writer and journalist 1889–1949Related quotes
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No. 166.
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