Beecher, Henry Ward - In Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, Life Thoughts: Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (1858)

A man should fear when he enjoys only what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity, rather than the charity, that he loves?

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and orator
In Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, Life Thoughts: Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (1858)

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