Benefactors

(264 votes)   In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(145 votes)   Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(98 votes)   Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Alfred E. Smith
1873-1944, American Politician

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