charity begins at home
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[edit]Proverb
[edit]- 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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[edit]you should help the people closest to oneself before helping others
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