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“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 55ba66ebc78d524a49b0ee2bacae1dfcb67abf58ed95505e07fca8db3adb894a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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