charitable quotes

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet†they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

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