charity begins at home

1. Be generous to your family before helping others. For example, She spends hours and hours on volunteer work and neglects the children, forgetting that charity begins at home. This proverb was first recorded in English, in slightly different form, in John Wycliffe's Of Prelates (c. 1380); “Charity should begin at himself.”

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“It is said charity begins at home,” Kaunda says, his expression serious, “and for these young orphaned elephants, this charitable foundation is what they call home.”

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He said: "Everyone has an opportunity to advance themselves and that should be every person's duty. To seek what a better life they can get. If that involves crossing the Channel in small boats then so be it. But at the same point, charity begins at home."

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So the old saying: Charity begins at home.

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"I hear people say, and there will be many in my constituency who will say this too, that charity begins at home," he told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour.

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“Charity begins at home,” says Jacobson, 36.

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