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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. preserving
2. lives
3. asked
4. worth

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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