>Since you like quotations so much, here is one in response:
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>"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." -- William Hutton
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>I wonder if those benefitting from benevolence feel the same way.
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>Not a thing wrong with pride.

Down to six deadly sins now ? :-}
Wikip : In almost every list pride (or hubris or "vanity") is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins

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>Quotations rarely have value beyond a sig line. (And even less when excessively used)