charity begins at home
English
Proverb
- 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.
Translations
you should help the people closest to oneself before helping others
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