It might be laid down as a very good general rule of social and political guidance, that whatever Exeter Hall champions, is the thing by no means to be done. The Circumlocution Office2020-02-03T14:04:09+00:00Categories: Journalism, Literary Reviews|Tags: Exeter Hall, Philanthropy| Read More
We are quite in a childlike state altogether, representing an infant institution, and not even yet a grown-up company. The Circumlocution Office2019-06-18T15:34:02+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Philanthropy| Read More
There were two classes of charitable people; one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:04:33+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Charity, Philanthropy, Virtue signalling| Read More
He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco-nuts and bread-fruit. The Circumlocution Office2019-09-09T21:53:55+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Foreign Aid, Philanthropy, Poverty, Religion| Read More
I am a School lady, I am a Visiting lady, I am a Reading lady, I am a Distributing lady; I am on the local Linen Box Committee and many general committees; and my canvassing alone is very extensive—perhaps no one’s more so. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:50:49+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Charity, Philanthropy, Virtue signalling| Read More
The African project at present employs my whole time. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:03:17+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Foreign Aid, Philanthropy| Read More