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Altruism Quotations (Subscribe) Quotations, proverbs, and sayings about:
Altruism, unselfishness, sacrifice, and selflessness.

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Water (Altruism, Charity, Literature) - Cervantes, Miguel de

"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
- from Don Quixote (1605). - Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish poet, novelist, and playwright; b. 1547 - d. 1616)

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Water (Altruism, Friends and Friendship) - Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (French statesman and diplomat, b. 1754 - d. 1838)

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