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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  I'm sure Samuel Smiles would approve!

  
  
  In fact, goodly Sam's attitude to charity was rather more complicated, as evidenced by his discussion of it in Chapter 14 of Thrift, in which, among many nuggets of Victorian fatherly advice, you'll find the following statement:
  
  'Charity, like man, is sometimes blind, and frequently misguided.'

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