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The kind of ostentation which is criminal, and criminal only because it is fraudulent, is where a person makes a show of giving when in reality he does not give.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke distinguishes between acceptable and fraudulent forms of ostentation in charitable acts.
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