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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Oscar Wilde
Poverty, Poor, Begging
Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1043, Wordsworth Editions
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg