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A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Charles Spurgeon
Brother, Generosity, Simplicity
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1411, Barbour Publishing
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.