Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.38
topic: Essence, Generosity, Selfishness, Posthumous