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The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...thus a heavy task is laid upon gift-love. it must work toward its own abdication. we must aim at making ourselves superfluous. the hour when we can say 'they need me no longer' should be our reward. but the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.
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The Proper Aim Of Giving Is To

C. S. Lewis
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...thus a heavy task is laid upon gift-love. it must work toward its own abdication. we must aim at making ourselves superfluous. the hour when we can say 'they need me no longer' should be our reward. but the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.
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