Philanthropy has undoubtedly been a good deal discredited both by the exceedingly noxious individuals who go into it with ostentation to make a reputation, and by the only less noxious persons who are foolish and indiscriminate givers.
From an essay on the strenuous life, this passage criticizes how ostentatious or indiscriminate givers discredit the practice of philanthropy.
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