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There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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