“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

Pearl S. Buck writer, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner

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Francisco L. from Tucson, Arizona APRIL 18, 2010
Great quote and the strongest argument for anonymous giving rather than giving with an expectation of recognition and/or an expectation that the recipient be grateful.

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