charity begins at home

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charity begins at home

  1. One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.
    • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici[1]:
      Charity begins at home, is the voyce of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.

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