The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life (ed. 1872)


The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.