charity begins at home
English
Proverb
charity begins at home
- One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.
- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
- Charity begins at home, is the voyce of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
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Translations
you should help the people closest to oneself before helping others
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