>>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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>FWIW, in Judaism, charity is considered more honorable when neither the donor nor the recipient knows who the other one is. Here's the complete list: http://judaism.about.com/od/beliefs/a/charity_nine.htm
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>Tamar

Now I understand where your insistence on remaining anonymous when you help someone comes from.