Helping Gossamer

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    When helping others, do not look for a reward; if you are looking for rewards, don’t help others.
    Chinese proverb.

    I am as unfit for any practical purpose—I mean for the furtherance of the world’s ends—as gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)